@austin.texas @catweazel
Yes yes yes thankyou thankyou thankyou. Your terminal command worked, and I have now reinstalled Mint dual booting with Windows

Linux is great. Mint is lovely. Life is beautiful.
Before you responded with the command to de-hibernate from the Live CD terminal, I was IRC/Hexchatting and folks there could not understand why I would even acknowledge Windows during an installation and thought that by giving Windows the mount point "/windows", the installation would be in trouble from the get-go. But I have always designated Windows as such... and it is the "loader"... although I specify "Do Not Format". It seems to me we have to designate Windows as such for GRUB to recognize... no? The installer is the overall ATA drive.
Tried to use Windows System Repair Disk to "fix" WIN MBR, but kept getting the following on black:
error: file '/grub/i386-pc /normal.mod' not found
Entering rescue mode
grub rescue>
Same message resulted from other methods. Started looking into grub-2 and system repair tools.
But now I can stop taking time to research, thank you.