After more research I decided to change the boot order again and use the usb drive to boot windows so that I could download EasyBCD to create a partition on the hdd and load it with the recovery iso. Before trying to boot from the hdd I removed the usb drive, entered BIOS setup, disabled booting from external devices (which I had earlier enabled to use the bootable usb), and switched the hdd back to the first slot of the boot process, which returned the laptop to it's original black screen with flashing cursor upon attempting to boot. As a precaution I downloaded Avast! which I used to do a thorough scan, finding and deleting/repairing many trojan and/or corrupt files, and attempted to boot the laptop from the hdd. After some research I chose to make a bootable usb drive loaded with the recovery info/image iso which eventually enabled me to successfully boot and run Windows. AVAST ERROR MESSAGE FAILED TO CREATE STARTUP DISK CODEWhen I received said laptop it failed to boot, stopping almost immediately upon start up to show a black screen with only a flashing cursor, and neither of the Window's repair disks I tried were able to help showing an error code that many others reported seeing when using their own repair disks. My neighbor told me he was having issues with his laptop so I, assuming that with google at my disposal I could fix most anything, offered to try to take care of it. My apologies as I am both an extreme novice and fairly sure this issue has been resolved in other threads, but none of the solutions I've found and tried have been successful. Machine in question is a Sony Vaio running 64-bit Windows 7.
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