SD Card ignored in all cases

I'm about exhausted looking for a solution. 1st the Nooter steps don't work, the NC boots into original system.

No matter what steps I follow nothing causes the NC to read the SD card. At this point I'm totally confused.

Here's what I've done:

1) format the SD card, title "boot"
2) Using Win32DiskImager Iinstall "generic-sdcard-v1.3-CM7-9-10-10.1-10.2-11-largest-Rev8c.img" which gives me a list of files on the SD card

.android_secure
Android
B&N Downloads
getjar
LOST.DIR
MyFiles
MLO
u-boot.bin
uImage
uRamDisk

3) Then I copy
CM-11-20160523-NIGHTLY-encore.ZIP
and
open_gapps-arm-4.4-nano-20160603.ZIP
to the SD card.

(What is the purpose of CM-11-20160523-NIGHTLY-encore-recovery.img? Am I suppose to change the name to just recovery.img? that doesn't help the situation.)

4) eject the SD card, insert into NC, connect the NC to the computer via the charging cable.

5) Result is boot of NC into original operating system as always.

What the H am I doing wrong?

Jerry, USN-Ret, USMM-Ret. (44 years on the bounding main!)

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