Hard drive full, computer won't start, BSOD every time

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pkrw34

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My laptops been on sleep mode and plugged in (took out the battery) for a while and it needed to update, in which it needed to restart to finish updating. The hard drive was nearly full as well.

Suddenly, the power to it was cut off and when I tried to use it, I kept getting a blue screen and it also tells me Windows failed to start.

I tried startup repair and no help. It's been over a year since I used my laptop because of that and today I decided to try Ultimate Boot CD. I managed to access my files and delete what I don't need through PartedMagic. I still keep getting BSOD upon startup.

P.S. Also in the error log when I tried using startup repair, there was a command WRITE FPDMA QUEUED.
 
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I don't know what that error means. If you can get to a commend prompt, do a repair:

chkdsk /r

When prompted after you enter that command hit the "enter" key, then type the letter 'y' and hit the "enter" key to proceed with the check disk and repair. Then see if the issue is fixed and bootable into windows. Then you can focus on clearly up your hard drive.
 
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Since my computer can't boot and has an endless BSOD, I tried using command prompt with the advanced recovery options.

I typed in what you said "chkdsk /r" and it said "The type of the file system is NTFS. cannot lock current drive. Windows cannot run disk checking on this volume because it is write protected"

I tried "chkdsk" instead and at the end of the command, it says Failed to transfer logged messages to the event log with status 50.
 
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Question: Before you go down a rabbit hole, trying to diagnose this issue: Couldn't you simply pull off the data, the re-partition and re-format? What OS is this? What laptop model is this? When you say "the power to it was cut off" do you mean that it was updating the BIOS and the power was accidentally cut off?

Regardless, this could be a lot of things. Were it my computer, I would start off with a chkdsk /r. I know you said it's not working from within the laptop. The way around this is to remove the laptop's harddrive, get a SATA to USB adapter and connect it to another computer. Then you have to change the command prompt to the drive letter for the externally connected laptop drive, and run the chkdsk /r. After that then you can continue with the troublelhooting. When you mention PartedMagic, I assume that you mean Partition Magic.
 
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I have Windows 7. It's an Acer Aspire laptop. And it was downloading Windows Update and needed to restart to finish updating before I stopped using it for a while.

I had the charger cord plugged in the whole time (the battery died out too much so I took it out).

I tried safe mode now and it seems to work, along with networking & cmd. But if I start it normally, I get a BSOD with the error 0x000000FC.

And PartedMagic is somewhat like a Linux OS that comes with UltimateBootCD, which is how I managed to access my files and delete what I didn't need off the HDD.
 
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Ah. I recommend that you place the battery back in, and leave the cable plugged in; at least while you're working on this. I know of several laptop models that will not function properly without the battery inserted. I know you can't run the check disk, but try to do this:

Click on Windows button
Type CMD on Search
Left click and Run as Administrator
Type SFC /scannow
 
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Oh, I tried it even with the battery in..still getting a blue screen on normal startup except for safe mode. I saw another thread on seven forums regarding the sfc command you mentioned, it tells me that a repair is pending or something like that.
 
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Yeah, I hear ya. Honestly, this is going to be a really tough issue to troubleshoot over a forum. Since you have access to the file structure, you should just backup the files that you need or want, and re-image. That's assuming that their is no physical problem with the hard drive. So far you haven't stated anything that leads me to believe that their is. It's really going to be the safest and most reliable solution.
 
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It is..and so far I don't see anyone having an issue similar to it. As I said, the HDD was nearly full before I stopped using it and Windows Update needed to restart to finish updates which made it even worse..so I never got the chance to clear some space before it was unplugged.

For now, all I can do is buy an external HDD, back everything up (the backup drive on the laptop is useless), and do a factory reset assuming the problem isn't hardware related which it shouldn't be.
 
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