Hi all and Charles, Confession time here and a possible lesson for anyone else reading this having weird problems.
Due to my computer being in a custom made tower, I have been doing some work on it lately and it seems I slightly dislodged the HDD lead from the mobo!!! It allowed booting up [just] but maybe the heat build-up had some effect by the end of the day causing the lead to lift enough to break the connection on a few data lines. Sorry to have wasted everyone's bandwidth with this "problem". Charles, I added that line as you said there were issues with AMD and 8.2 as it may avoid problems I might have encountered further down the line. Many thanks for your suggestion . regards magnet.
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