The recovery stick allowed me to get to a Windows command line. I only found it by going through a handful of USB sticks by trying to boot them to see what each contained. I just happened to have a USB stick with Windows Recovery on it which is very lucky as we're having problems trying to access certain websites like Microsoft dot com, we get Access Denied errors when we try to connect. I was stuck so I spent two days scouring the internet looking for fixes until I found this video from ASA Technical on YouTube: The MBR for Win 10 broke and at would only boot to Grub Rescue. I could not get EasyBCD to boot the 320GB HD so I tried Boot Repair from a Ubuntu USB stick. I signed up for the fourth time for the edX Linux course starting August 23, maybe this time I'll make it through. I'm thinking of shrinking the Win 10 partition down to 20GB as I always boot into Zorin.
I bought the laptop so I could teach myself Linux in a hands-on way. I also have a 2011 HP Elitebook 2760 that dual boots Win 10 that came preinstalled and Zorin OS that I added soon after I got the machine a few months ago. I am afraid to proceed as I really wanted the Win 10 drive disconnected before installing Zorin. It lists the Win 10 drive as the location it will write to the MBR. I booted from the USB Live stick with Zorin on it and got as far as the Try Something Else screen where I can see the sda 2TB drive and the sdb 320GB drive. I put the cables back in their proper order and now I can't get the 320GB drive to boot. I pulled all of the files I wanted off the 320GB drive and installed Zorin to it by swapping the cables of the two drives and leaving the Win 10 2TB drive disconnected. This sounds like I know what I'm doing but I really don't. One is a 320GB drive that came with Win 7 Pro when I bought the machine and the other is a 2TB drive that I cloned the 320GB drive to and "upgraded" to Win 10 last September.
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