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OK, things did NOT go as well as I had thought... ;(
Machine did boot up just fine, but I still had the USB stick created by Acronis TI 2014 inserted.
this morning I got some updates needing a reboot and I had removed the stick, no boot device found.
checked Disk Management and all partitions marked as simple and no way to change that I know of. And if I put the stick back in and try to boot to the Acronis boot and software, it instead just boots into W8.1.
Now I'm stuck and don't know what to do to get it back to booting from the HD. Any thoughts???