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Got my lappy back last night. Not bad in on the 23rd and back on the 26th night. They had to get the disk from Delhi. The dealer got it bare, uninstalled, so I had some fun getting it going. Initially the disk would not show up. I booted Mint from the USB drive, and was only seeing the 8GB SSD with the content pre-crash. While on the boot it was seeing the Mint USB it was not seeing the Windows Installed Pen. While fooling around in Mint I suddenly found the 'lost' drive. So mounted it, enabled it, and formatted. Not much luck with the bootloader, so I set the two boot parameters to Legacy, lo and behold the USB showed up as a boot option and then things proceeded happily from there. Took me the better part of five hour to be up and running. Having been spoilt by Partititon Magic, I find the Windows Partition manager prehistoric. So I loaded EaseUS and made the two additional partitions E: and F: for Work and Archive. This left about 130GB free. I will install AOMEI One KeyRecovery after the initial configuration, and create a Boot Partition. This should take about 45GB, the rest I may leave for Linux, if I decide to start fooling about with it once again. Let us see.
I have run out of bandwidth on my net connection, so am asking my ISP for a premature renewal tomorrow.