Still having problems

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Sometimes walking away and letting it sit on kernel panic while you make a cup of tea or coffee surprises you when you come back and see the boot process finish also. I have seen that also happen.

True.  I've also had kernel panics on first boot attempt of live USB, only to have it disappear after 2nd or 3rd boot attempt -- so go ahead and and try booting more than once to see if boots successfully on one of the attempts.  (Don't know why it happens, but it does.)

The drive is partitioned in this configuration:
One HDD of 80GB (all calcs are before automatic overhead):
Drive C is now approximately 28GB
Virtual Drive D (a second partion) is 27GB
(This is the primary spaces assigned for Linux Lite)
With a tiny drive on at the end in never never land for Ghost Windows sized to 25GB.

Not sure what you mean by "Virtual Drive D".  Is that a regular partition, or is it something else.  Can you post a screenshot of the drive from Windows Disk Manager (not from GParted) please?  I'm wondering if you created a "dynamic" disk by accident, which I believe causes problems for Linux installs.

I don't know what "Ghost Windows" is, but if you can't boot into that to provide above screenshot then boot up with LL DVD/USB (assuming you can get past kernel panic) and post screenshot from GParted.  Also provide terminal output from these commands:

Code:

lsblk
sudo fdisk -l

(Lowercase letter "L" at end, not the number 1.)