Thanks Pete, it has been a LONG road and mom is looking forward to her trip next week.
Her Dr. told her she can occasionally not sweat small things in her diet for example on the trip.
So she is going to party it up a hair for a cheat trip diet wise.
She is kind of looking forward to having the odd piece of cheese, or chinese food without worry.
On the puter front, I am redownloading the iso tool and image to the usb then going to reformat the ssd once I have that image on the thumb drive. Reload it minus the 3.5" hddd with the other data on it. tp see if that loads correctly... if not it is the wait and see when my optical drive gets here.
Trying to not wipe the 3.5 until the data can tried to be recovered from my zune since win 8.1 up does not read the sw correctly and I have old pics of all the kitties of the past on it.