Windows 7 Blue Screen, will not boot from CD?

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Hello all! So I finally got fed up with Windows 8 and got my hands on a copy of Windows 7 Profession 64 bit. I reinstalled my OS a couple of days ago, updated all my drivers. It's been running fine since then. Then today, I turn on my computer, it gets to the windows 4 color splash screen, then I get a quick blue screen and it reboots.

On reboot it asks if I'd like to go into windows repair setup. If I select that, it goes to a black screen with "Windows is loading files..." and a progress bar. After that finishes loading, it goes to a black screen with no cursor. I left that for about an hour to see if maybe it was just being slow, but no change.

I figured the entire partition was borked, so I thought I'd do a repair install. I put in the windows 7 install cd, changed the boot order to boot from the cd. When I hit any key, it goes into the same "Windows is loading files..." screen, then the "starting windows" screen for about three seconds. Then it goes to the same black screen with no cursor as before.

No I'm a little stuck. Apparently I can't boot to repair setup, AND I can't boot from CD for some reason. This is worrying as I can't even do a full reformat and reinstall if I wanted, it's like my HD has been hijacked by a broken windows install.

Specs:

Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
MSI Z77A-G45
Intel Core i5 3570K
16 GB RAM (I don't remember brand, I think G.Skill?)
WD Caviar Black 1TB

I've tried googling this issue but can't find anyone who is having both a boot issue AND a boot from CD issue. Also I can't search the forum as I'm typing from my smart phone. Tapping the search icon just refreshes the home page.
 
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Hopefully your friend had the same model PC as yours. Windows typically objects (sometimes violently) when you move it to another PC because the motherboard and other hardware is different. So I hope your friend's PC is still running normally.

But... this sounds like corrupted data on your HDD, or a bad HDD.

First off - listen to the drive while you try to boot from it. If it makes a click-click-click style of noise when trying to boot, then you have the "click of death" Then its time to replace the drive or RMA it if its under warranty.

If you do NOT want to save anything on your HDD, a full re-format and reload of windows will be the fastest way to get it running again. But if the drive has gone bad, then you will eventually...
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so after the failed attempt to launch repair setup - what happens if you just try to boot into windows normally? do you still get a blue screen? If so, try to see the error code or message. that will give a better idea of what went wrong.

As a test -- boot from the windows CD and pretend like your going to re-load windows. See how far that gets.
Try the CD on another computer... see if its messed up somehow.
Try your HDD on another computer, see if you can access the files.

Its possible the CD or your CD-rom drive or your HDD are messed up.

If you just want to wipe everything clean and start over, then just reload windows. There is an option in the setup to reformat your HDD -- you will of course loose all your data and have to re-install all your programs.
 
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Yes i get the blue screen every time i try to boot into windows normally. The other issue is I can't even get as far as setup, whether via repair setup OR the windows CD. If I try to boot from CD, I just get the black screen. As far as the blue screen, it flashes too quickly for me to read it. It's up for about half a second before the computer reboots.

I highly doubt that both my HD and CD Rom drive died at the eexact same moment. Also, at the suggest of a roomate, I unplugged my monitor from the video card and plugged it into the on board mobo video slot. No dice. The monitor just said "no connection". This leads me to believe it might be a dead mobo.
 
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Okay I got a friend to bring her computer over and plugged my HD into it, unplugged hers. Same blue screen as before when trying to boot normally.

I put the windows 7 cd into her computer and was able to boot from it. I clicked "repair this computer", it took about ten minutes for the System Recovery Options menu to pop up, and then another fifteen minutes with the loading ring going before the "searching for Windows installations" window came up. It's been searching for about ten minutes now. The fact that each step is taking so long screams to me that it might be a bad HDD. But then why would the bad HDD cause me to be unable to boot from my CD drive? I plugged my friend's HDD straight into my computer and it booted up and ran windows just fine, so the primary issue seems to be either my install hijacking other components or the HDD itself being junk.
 
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Hopefully your friend had the same model PC as yours. Windows typically objects (sometimes violently) when you move it to another PC because the motherboard and other hardware is different. So I hope your friend's PC is still running normally.

But... this sounds like corrupted data on your HDD, or a bad HDD.

First off - listen to the drive while you try to boot from it. If it makes a click-click-click style of noise when trying to boot, then you have the "click of death" Then its time to replace the drive or RMA it if its under warranty.

If you do NOT want to save anything on your HDD, a full re-format and reload of windows will be the fastest way to get it running again. But if the drive has gone bad, then you will eventually have the same problems.

Other options are get a HDD test CD, boot from that and scan your drive for problems -- this will probably need to run overnite. That may be able to repair your drive, or it may just confirm that it needs replacing.
 
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