Yea bootrec.exe and some others outlined in a “boot record holocaust.”. Since I didn’t run BCWipe on my desktop I don’t know if ATAErase being disabled prevented BCWipe from deleting the mbr on my laptop since it the fxn I used should’ve deleted everything. Until using the recovery console there was a hidden directory at C:/boot/ and I never installed a previous version of Win. When looking at the file details it was last modified Feb 2011 and the files in there didn’t resemble healthy files in the win 7 dvd for c:\windows\boot.

EasyBCD allowed me to boot from a new USB stick as well, which I couldn’t do before. The slow loading ia gone as well as duplicate Win 7 files.