Re-imaged, ran Scandisk as directed, and pulled all peripherals of the machine. Ran the upgrade, it rebooted and brough up a Loading Files prompt with a progress bar beneath that ran to completion,...

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Thanks, I will follow the procedures, short of opening up my case and pulling my SATA drives; don't want to mess around inside again unless I have to.

Might give the virtual machine a try. I re-imaged back to Windows 7 and tried the option to upgrade directly to the drive, without using a thumb drive, and it still resulted in the reboot loop...

Updated the specs. Here's what the setupdiag.xml:

<Version>1.6.0.0</Version>
<ProfileName>No Match Found</ProfileName>
<LogErrorLine>No Match Found</LogErrorLine>
<FailureData>...

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