You were so right, I am a bit too *****ious for my own good,

The theory worked great, Using Remastersys to create the iso image then unetbootin to make a bootable sd card, but my sda 2 was not the sd card....

So now my computer boots with the unetbootin version (I presume off of sda2, as the sd card is empty) but I have lost my ability to choose between the original version on sda6 and my windows on sda1. I think this method should work once you have the iso (I used unetbootin to installl eeebuntu in the first place, I dont see how it could be any different), just dont make the same mistake I did, I hope I can salvage my original grub menu (or boot menu?).

I will look for help in another forum that is more on this topic, thanks!