I'm happy to report that after several days of using AOEMI Backupper and partition tools to restore the August version of my system and more recently backed up files--

I'm up and going again!
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I'm running to the store to buy a new SSD. I'll clone my existing SSD with the fresh install to it, then swap it into my laptop to try doing the system restore using BackerUpper.

That way, if...

Automated repair has probably been run hundreds of times by now. At first, it was in a loop running it over and over again until I used the Startup options to disable it running automatically.
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This is my first post. Please take pity on me!

If I disable the automatic repair, I get an error about HAL bein missin or contains errors.

I can get to a command line via...