Bootcamp stuck in rebooting loop

Hi guys how is everybody doing?
I got a question and I hope you guys can help me with this.
I've got a MBP with Bootcamp (Windows 7 Ultimate) on it.
I was installing software and after it finished it said it had to restart, so I did.
Now, when I start my MBP and boot into the Windows partition the "_" symbol blinks a couple of times and then the system just reboots again.
Because I've set Windows as my boot disk, it just keeps looping without me even touching it.
I've tried booting into safe mode by pressing F8, but the difference is that the "_" sign blinks maybe 2min longer, but then starts rebooting again.
I've tried using my original install disk to repair Windows, but when I select my windows disk I get the message:
"This version of System Recovery Options is not compatible with the version of Windows you are trying to repair. Try using a recovery disk that is compatible with this version of Windows".
This confuses me even more, does it have to do with the fact that I've installed updates/Service Packs later on? That the disk is older?
There is a lot of software and data on the Bootcamp disk that would be terrible for me to lose. Therefore, a fresh install is not possible for me.
Could somebody help me out on this one? I would be eternally thankful!
Kind regards,
Gino

Hi Loner T, once again thanks for the reply!
Here are the outputs of the terminal commands:
EDIT:
Maybe I should also add that I've try booting into safe mode, but can't.
I've also tried booting into the bios but I also can't get into here.
The screen stays black with the white "_" (or sometimes it's not even there) blinking, and after just letting it be for a couple of minutes it reboots again.
I've also tried to reboot from my Windows 7 disk, go into repair, but with my own one it said that the software was too old (I'm guessing because the SP1 isn't on there).
A friend handed me a Windows 7 disk with SP1, but when I boot from that disk it just brings me to a clean install of Windows 7, no repair option.
Then I also tried to create a Windows 7 System Repair Disk on a different machine, but also no luck.

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configd[13]
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com.apple.message.domain: com.apple.powermanagement.sleep
com.apple.message.signature: Success
com.apple.message.value: 0
com.apple.message.result: Success
com.apple.message.uuid: A9EDA79D-440F-4CD5-B3FA-5A6451E6677B
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Wake: Drivers Failure - AC - HDEF SATA
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[0x0-0x14014].com.google.Chrome[147]
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[0x0-0x14014].com.google.Chrome[147]
[147:-1273409536:105210075659:ERROR:backend_impl.cc(1148)] Critical error found -8
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Jun 8 23:53:01 localhost Console[919]: asl_file_open_read() failed on path /var/log/DiagnosticMessages/2012.06.04.asl with error Invalid Data Store
Jun 8 23:53:32: --- last message repeated 18 times ---
Jun 8 23:53:32 localhost Console[919]: asl_file_open_read() failed on path /var/log/DiagnosticMessages/2012.06.04.asl with error Invalid Data Store
Jun 8 23:54:02: --- last message repeated 5 times ---
Jun 9 00:07:00 localhost com.apple.launchd[1]: *** launchd[1] has started up. ***
Jun 9 00:07:04 localhost DirectoryService[15]: Improper shutdown detected
Jun 9 00:07:04 localhost blued[17]: Apple Bluetooth daemon started
Jun 9 00:07:12 localhost fseventsd[34]: event logs in /.fseventsd out of sync with volume. destroying old logs. (14259 14 14295)
Jun 9 00:07:12 localhost fseventsd[34]: log dir: /.fseventsd getting new uuid: 848839F3-1F7D-409B-A5F1-14170B9CD90D
Jun 9 00:07:12 localhost bootlog[41]: BOOT_TIME: 1339180618 0
Jun 9 00:07:15 localhost mDNSResponder[29]: mDNSResponder mDNSResponder-258.21 (May 26 2011 14:40:13) starting
Jun 9 00:07:16 localhost com.apple.usbmuxd[22]: usbmuxd-268.5 on Jan 5 2012 at 03:34:01, running 64 bit
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Jun 9 00:08:37 localhost [0x0-0x14014].com.google.Chrome[147]: [0609/000837:INFO:breakpad_mac.mm(177)] Breakpad disabled
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Jun 8 07:21:47 Manoj-Satis-iMac loginwindow[30]: no spins reported for this wake
Jun 8 07:22:46 Manoj-Satis-iMac loginwindow[30]: loginwindow SleepWakeCallback WILL sleep
Jun 8 07:22:54 Manoj-Satis-iMac loginwindow[30]: loginwindow SleepWakeCallback will power on, Currenttime:6/8/2012 7:22:54.006 AM - Waketime:6/8/2012 7:22:53.330 AM = Deltatime:0.676087976
Jun 8 07:22:54 Manoj-Satis-iMac applepushserviced[125]: <APSCourier: 0x106741520>: Stream error occurred for <APSTCPStream: 0x107315250>: Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=57 UserInfo=0x107539b80 "The operation couldn’t be completed. Socket is not connected"
Jun 8 07:22:54 Manoj-Satis-iMac applepushserviced[125]: <APSCourier: 0x106741520>: Stream error occurred for <APSTCPStream: 0x107529760>: Error Domain=kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork Code=2 UserInfo=0x107318360 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork error 2.)"
Jun 8 07:22:54 Manoj-Satis-iMac configd[13]: bootp_session_transmit: bpf_write(en1) failed: Network is down (50)
Jun 8 07:22:54 Manoj-Satis-iMac configd[13]: DHCP en1: INIT-REBOOT transmit failed
Jun 8 07:22:54 Manoj-Satis-iMac configd[13]: network configuration changed.
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Jun 8 07:22:58 Manoj-Satis-iMac configd[13]: Sleep: Success - AC - Software Sleep
Jun 8 07:22:58 Manoj-Satis-iMac configd[13]: Wake: Success - AC - EHC2
Jun 8 07:22:58 Manoj-Satis-iMac configd[13]: Hibernate Statistics
Jun 8 07:22:58 Manoj-Satis-iMac configd[13]: network configuration changed.
Jun 8 07:23:05 Manoj-Satis-iMac loginwindow[30]: loginwindow SleepWakeCallback WILL sleep
Jun 8 19:20:45 localhost com.apple.launchd[1]: *** launchd[1] has started up. ***
Jun 8 19:20:48 localhost DirectoryService[15]: Improper shutdown detected
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Jun 8 19:20:55 localhost bootlog[41]: BOOT_TIME: 1339163443 0
Jun 8 19:20:58 localhost mDNSResponder[29]: mDNSResponder mDNSResponder-258.21 (May 26 2011 14:40:13) starting
Jun 8 19:20:58 localhost com.apple.usbmuxd[22]: usbmuxd-268.5 on Jan 5 2012 at 03:34:01, running 64 bit
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Jun 8 19:24:28 localhost com.apple.launchd[1]: *** launchd[1] has started up. ***

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 Cheers, Tom

Ipad Stuck of Reboot Loop

My Ipad 2 is stuck on a reboot loop, and I'm not sure why. I've never jailbroken it, so thats out of the picture. I tried resetting it, didn't work. Also, restoring isn't good for me, because I don't have recent backup of my ipad, so i'll lose all of my information. icloud seemed to have neglected backing up, because i've got it turned on, but it does nothing. help!

See here http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3281

Intel Mac Mini stuck in reboot loop

I just upgraded the hard drive in my 2007 intel mac mini core duo. Drive formatted successfully, contains GUID Partition Table.
OSX 10.5 installed successfully.
Machine rebooted, I ran software update to 10.5.7 successfully.
Upon installing Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Acrobat Reader, machine began to react slowly to commands.
Rebooted machine, went to Grey Apple Screen with spinning dash wheen icon.
Machine rebooted itself, once again going to the grey apply screen with the spinning wheel.
After about 15 minutes of letting the continual reboot cycle happen, I inserted the installation DVD for 10.5, held the power button in to power off the machine, and booted from the disk.
I ran disk utility. Disk Utility shows the hard drive, shows the partition (GUID Partition) correctly.
I Verified Disk, which verified as "OK"
Repaired permissions.
Restarted machine.
Once again, it loaded to the grey apple screen, stayed there with the spinning dash wheel for about 3 minutes then continued to reboot over and over (everytime it reboots it sticks on the grey apple screen for 3 minutes before rebooting.
I once again powered off the machine and reset the PRAM.
Machine stuck again on reboot cycle.
I powered off the machine and reset the mini's SMC.
Machine is still stuck in reboot cycle.
I have also taken the mini back apart and verified that all RAM and connections are seated properly.
Any advice on what to do at this point will be very helpful.

+And I promise I will not download and install a hundred different programs this time.+
Good idea.
Any time you install software in OSX, there is a small, but finite, chance that the installation process won't be able to access a needed file because it is in use. This can mess up pre-binding, or even prevent files from being updated.
So the best advice is not to run any other programs while doing software installs or updates. And when in doubt, run DiskUtility afterwards and fix permissions one more time.
I cringe whenever I think of a post I read a while back about a Mac user who boasted about what music he likes to run in iTunes while doing system software updates. Not a good idea. It's "Russian roulette" with maybe 99 blanks in the "gun", but one real bullet that can kill your Mac's installation.

IPod touch 4g 6.1.6 stuck in reboot loop after trying to restore

My ipod touch 4g has a really bad battery and only works if you have it plugged in and charging, but I've never had this problem before. I unplugged it from where it was charging and it died, of course. But when I plugged it into my computer to sync it, it started an endless reboot loop with the apple logo. I tried putting it into dfu mode and restoring it, I've tried doing it on three other macs, and the I've let the battery drain since it dies when I unplug it. Still dont know what the problem is. I cant take it to apple cause I dont have apple care on it and they cant help because the battery doesnt work anyway. Help is much appriciated.

See if y misse anything here:
- iOS: Not responding or does not turn on
- Also try DFU mode after try recovery mode
How to put iPod touch / iPhone into DFU mode « Karthik's scribblings
- If not successful and you can't fully turn the iOS device fully off, let the battery fully drain. After charging for an least an hour try the above again.
- Try another cable
- Try on another computer
- If still not successful that usually indicates a hardware problem and an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store is in order. You do not need AppleCare and it is free.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar

Macbook Stuck in Rebooting Loop w/battery

My cousin let me "try before i buy" a used macbook white 2.0GHZ. I got an original battery from ebay just today. The computer runs perfectly on the AC adapter and retains a charge, but once its in my computer it doesn't make it past the gray apple screen with the spinner. It just keeps going to that screen and gets stuck rebooting over and over. I've tried resetting the pram and smc to no avail. I don't have another battery to try and i did install the battery update. Let me know if you guys have any ideas.
Model Name: MacBook
Model Identifier: MacBook1,1
Processor Name: Intel Core Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 2 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MB11.0061.B03
SMC Version: 1.4f12
OSX 10.5.6

I finally got this thing to work. Here's what i did. I booted into safe mode (hold shift on boot) then inserted the battery while it was on. It ran ok after that and I let the fully charged battery run down all the way. At this time I figured there had to be some sort of software problem going on. After that I found this website after i looked through the console logs (Applications > Utilities > Console) and googled the "bootcache" file which was causing me some problems.
http://unsanity.org/archives/betas/enthusiastic_trepidation.php
I ran through the steps they suggested to reset the bootcache file and I'm up and running on and off of the battery just fine without any hangs or anything. Problem SOLVED!!

2007 80gb Ipod Classic stuck in 'reboot' loop, disk mode 'ok to disconnect'

Long story short. I'd love to revive my old Ipod classic as a way of storing all my music for my car, however the ipod won't go past the apple logo upon reboot and shows the message 'connect to your computer. Use iTunes to restore' then it goes blank again. If I enter disk mode the ipod shows 'ok to disconnect' and when connected to the computer the ipod isn't recognised at all. Today however after plugging into the computer a few times and wiggling it around a bit it just started to work. I then restored it and began to sync but when I went to play a song the ipod froze and I was forced to reboot... which put me back where I started.
HELP!

Do the iPod Disk Diagnostic as posted earlier today by tt2, it wont fix your problem, but helps in troubleshooting.

IPod Touch 4th gen stuck in reboot loop after attempting to update to iOS 6.1.5

Hi.
I have my iPod Touch 4th Gen (iOS 6.1.3)....I plugged it into my computer, it said there was a software update available. I click ok, it goes through all of it's stuff, gets up to Verifying update with Apple, and then I get an error message.
"The iPod 'iPod Touch 4' could not be restored. It is not eligible for the requested build."
I know this has something to do with Apple not signing the package, but I got iOS 7.0.4 on my iPhone today and it worked fine.
Thanks for all of your guys' help,
-jwukitsch

Try what you have not yet tried:
- iOS: Not responding or does not turn on
- Also try DFU mode after try recovery mode
How to put iPod touch / iPhone into DFU mode « Karthik's scribblings
- If not successful and you can't fully turn the iOS device fully off, let the battery fully drain. After charging for an least an hour try the above again.
- Try on another computer
- If still not successful that usually indicates a hardware problem and an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store is in order.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar

Ipad reboot loop

Ipad stuck in reboot loop, trying to restore it via iTunes, it gets started but then close to the end the ipad slips back into the reboot loop and disconnects the reboot

when I try to activate on itunes i have this message:
We're sorry, we are unable to continue with your activation at this time.
Please try again later, or contact customer care.
but I already tried many times, and nothing, in the same way after restore or restore by DFU

IMac froze, rebooted but finder stuck in crash loop...

I have an iMac 2007 running Mavericks. Recently it has started occasionally freezing where my mouse still moves around the screen but everything on the desktop is completely frozen. After holding the on/off switch to reboot it usually comes back on and opens the folders/programs that were already in use and all is well.
However, today was different....it froze while I was using Safari....so I held the on/off switch as usual to reboot and the usual pop-ups appeared, asking me to re-open programs etc. However, since then I can't get finder to open...I have a constant flashing message saying "Last time you opened finder, it unexpectedly quit while re-opening windows. do you want to try to re-open windows again. - It gives 2 options 'don't reopen and re-open'....but the box is continually flashing very second as though it is stuck in a loop....doesn't matter what I try to press, it does the same thing over and over. It means I can access anything on my dock but cannot see my desktop files or any other files on the hard drive. I haven't done a time machine backup for a long time so wary of my next move. Ironically, I just bought a new drive for time machine and this happened before I got the chance to do the backup!!! Typical.
Other useful info may be that I think I only have around 3gb of free memory space on my hard drive right now.
I am on version 10.9.4 of Mavericks and there is a software update available.....should I try to do the software update to see if it irons this problem out or is there anyway I can backup my hard drive first or any other way of accessing my hard drive/desktop files before I do anything?
I have seen this problem related to Google Drive before but I don't use that...unless it is installed somewhere on my system without me knowing and still causing the problem?
Any help greatly appreciated....
Thanks

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Step 1
For this step, the title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
          SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
          View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
In the top right corner of the Console window, there's a search box labeled Filter. Initially the words "String Matching" are shown in that box. Enter the name of the crashed application or process. For example, if iTunes crashed, you would enter "iTunes" (without the quotes.)
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Select the messages from the time of the last crash, if any. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
☞ The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of which is irrelevant to solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
☞ Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
Step 2
In the Console window, select
          DIAGNOSTIC AND USAGE INFORMATION ▹ User Diagnostic Reports
(not Diagnostic and Usage Messages) from the log list on the left. There is a disclosure triangle to the left of the list item. If the triangle is pointing to the right, click it so that it points down. You'll see a list of crash reports. The name of each report starts with the name of the process, and ends with ".crash". Select the most recent report related to the process in question. The contents of the report will appear on the right. Use copy and paste topost the entire contents—the text, not a screenshot.
I know the report is long, maybe several hundred lines. Please post all of it anyway.
If you don't see any reports listed, but you know there was a crash, you may have chosen Diagnostic and Usage Messages from the log list. Choose DIAGNOSTIC AND USAGE INFORMATION instead.
In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.)
Please don’t post other kinds of diagnostic report—they're very long and rarely helpful.

I was told by itunes my phone needed an update to 6.1.2. I did it, and now my phone is stuck in a reboot loop, and no wifi, phone, or bluetooth.

I connected my 3gs to my computer, and got a popup from itunes saying there was an update for my phone. Well i like to keep everything up to date, so I did the update. After it completed, I no longer have phone, Wifi, and bluetooth. It also is stuck in a reboot loop. I really do not know what I can do. I tried to restore it as a new phone, since i had all my data backed up.
Any help or ideas is greatly appreciated.

ccsoh wrote:
okay i may have called it wrong, we got the unlock from AT&T when our contract was up. We did this because we were thinking of switching to another carrier.
I checked the hosts file, and there is nothing refering to gs.apple.com. Should there be?
Is it possible to restore it back to 6.1?
No problem; it's just that many people buy what they think are "factory unlocked" phones, but the "factory" is the back room of the shop where they bought it.
gs.apple.com should not be in the hosts file (the only reason it might be there is if some hacking tool had been used on the computer in the past; not just jailbreaking tools, but tools to downgrade the OS and perform other unsupported functions).
You cannot restore back to 6.1; you need to resolve the problem with the latest version. Even if you could revert it would not solve the problem. You need to figure out why iTunes can't communicate with the activation servers. If you have another computer, try restoring on that, or take the phone to an Apple store and let a "genius" deal with it. Or, if your antivirus is Kaspersky, delete it completely, as it's impossible to turn it off completely, and it has taken a dislike to things Apple.

Satellite L500-1DT: HDD Recovery of Win 7 is stuck in endless reboot loop

This is a detailed bug report so please bear with me.
If you can help, or can confirm you've had the same happen to you, I'll be grateful.
I've owned several Toshiba laptops before and I even used to work for Toshiba so rest assured I like the machine. But I've got a problem with its recovery software. I just bought a laptop, Satellite L500-1DT with Windows 7 64 bit, on behalf of a non-techie who lives elsewhere. Since I know from experience that I will occasionally have to field panic calls along the lines of "it's become too slow", "how do I get rid of the accumulated junk", "maybe it's got a virus" and so on, the first thing I checked was the automatic recovery, i.e. how to bring the HD back to "as new" state.
So I booted into the machine, answered the questions until I got into the OS proper, and then ran the "make a recovery DVD" program. Double layer DVD verified ok. With the freshly made DVD, I swapped the supplied HD for a spare I had (much smaller: only 40 GB instead of 320) and booted the rescue DVD hoping that it would remake me a clean system on the blank drive.
It did repartition the drive according to its scheme, with more or less half the space for Windows and the other half for Data including the recovery files. It did install the system in the Windows partition. It then rebooted into the installed Windows 7 to finalize the installation. There, trouble began: an endless loop of reboots for hours until I stopped it.
Loop:
* reboot
* black screen with bright 4-colour windows logo "starting windows"
* black screen with light blade and "setup is preparing your computer for first use"
* blue "welcome" white screen with "please wait" and horizontal bar with green blob, saying "Finishing the installation may take several minutes. Please dont interrupt or shutdown the computer!"
* blue screen saying it's shutting down
Repeat the above forever.
I have seen it reboot way over 10 times over the course of several hours. And every time it pretends it's the first time it does that. Surely that's not normal!
I tried stopping it with ctrl-alt-del and task manager but the white screen would go on top of even the task manager, making it hard to kill any processes or even inspect what they were. I stopped it by holding down the power button until it switched off. Then when it rebooted it said if I wanted safe mode. I tried that. It went into the routine above and at some point it said it couldn't proceed with the installation if it was in safe mode. So it rebooted into regular mode and then... finished! It finally broke out of the endless loop!
Then it asked me all the usual questions about language, registration etc, as it had done the first time I had turned it on. This seemed good. I finally got back into a newly installed OS and all seemed fine, except I later discovered that some programs that were there before were not installed.
With bravery bordering stupidity (*) I even re-did the procedure on the supplied hard disk instead of my spare one: first I nuked the windows partition, then I did rescue from the HD (with F8), not with the DVD I had made. Result: similar rigmarole, with endless reboots.
After I stopped it, it sort-of-worked, as above, but now some other programs were missing, notably the Toshiba DVD player.
(*) motivated by: better try this now, with the computer here and all my tools and other computers ready at hand, than when the computer is away at its owner's home and that's the only thing left to try with me at the other end of a phone line. Been there before.
Now, that specific one (DVD player) I could download from the support page and it installed fine; but what else might be missing or not working that I didn't notice? Clearly the restore process isn't working as it should.
Am I the first or only one to whom this happens? Am I doing anything wrong? Is there anything else I should try?
I need to make sure this restore procedure works flawlessly while I still have the computer in my hands. If it doesn't, there's no chance I'm going to be able to do a remote reinstall for my non-techie once I am asked to clean up the laptop over the phone a few months from now.
Thanks in advance
[Update: while looking for the right place where I could post this I found that other people are reporting the same problem. It's definitely a bug in the distributed recovery software for W7-64, not an isolated problem of my machine. See for example
http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=49421&tstart=0 where user kwarc is describing the same symptoms with a Satellite L505.

I am glad to report some unexpected SUCCESS!
I left the computer at what it was doing when I wrote the previous
post. I came back to it an hour later or so (I had stopped counting
the reboots, though occasionally I'd hear that typical chime from the
other room, saying it was doing one more cycle) and I noticed
something slightly different: the white screen with "finishing the
installation may take several minutes" had a blue blob, not a green
blob, in the progress bar, and the blob was rectangular rather than
rounded. Very odd! Something different had happened, like a change of
theme. And a little while after that, the process really finished and
I got to the white screen that asks about what language etc etc, like
when I first turned on the new computer.
Great!
All I can conclude from this experience:
Even a reinstall that works will DEFINITELY involve many reboots that
seem to be getting nowhere. Apparently, progress is being made, even
though it looks like the process is stuck in a loop of reboots.
It would just be nice if it said something like "Before I finish
restoring, I'm going to have to reboot 26 times, please hang on; now
doing cycle 8 of 26". (Numbers are made up.) It doesn't, but just
knowing about it is helpful.
Perhaps worth redoing the install once more and making a note of how
long it really takes from beginning to end when it does work.
I still don't know if the process I described in the first post was
really stuck because of some other error or whether it would have
ended eventually. If I wanted to be really sure I could re-restore
everything on that hard disk once more.
I have no idea whether wiping all partitions from the disk before
reinstalling did any good or not: it shouldn't have made a difference
since, as I said, I noticed that the first thing the restore program
did was redo all the partitions itself. On the other hand we have
experimental proof that the restore can work on a HD without any
partitions.
Thanks again PauPau---the most useful thing you said, for me, was the
data point that for you it had worked. That's what made me try again
and leave the computer on indefinitely through the innumerable
reboots, just in case.
I'll repost a definitive answer on how long a successful restore
process should take once I get round to redoing it on the supplied 320
GB HD.

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