Three sudden problems

[gregrocker]

Is it possible this issue could have been caused by Easeus or another tool which doesn't play well with Win7?

We only use free Partition Wizard bootable CD and EasyBCD 2.0 here and have not had any issues like you describe in hundreds of cases.

 

[paul1149]

Greg - that's possible, because frankly I do not recall un-hiding and then re-hiding that partition until much later in the troubleshooting process.
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