If I hit F8 it then gives me some booting options - the ones I specified in my first post plus a a few others like debugging and return to OS Choices menu but then again, trying to do any of these it seems to start a booting process and comes back with a bunch of lines of "multi (0) disk rdisk(0) .... ... stuff and then the exact message as in my first post "we apologize for any inconvenience but widows did not start successfully ....".
By "running" recuva I mean I downloaded, installed and then ran a search to recover files, viewed a few but not much more than that.
I have no idea if it is just a coincidence or if it has something to do with Recuva. My guess is that it's a coincidence but really have not idea.
Thanks.