BSOD issues

Hello,

Earlier today, I was running Windows Vista business 64-bit and Windows 7 beta, both worked fine. Now when i try to boot to vista, i get a black screen that says there isn't sufficient data to operate, so it boots to 7, and BSOD's.
I'm running a Dimension E520 with 3.0 gHz Intel Pentium D, 2 GB memory.
The BSOD error is STOP: 0x00000024 (0x000c22D2, 0x00000010, 0x00000000, 0x00000000). Can anybody help me? I have a fair amount of knowledge with computers, but not alot when it comes to this, so try to be specific please. Tried running safe mode too, still BSOD.

Thanks

Andalf

The Google-fu is weak with this one ...

Sounds like your NTFS has corrupted. Throw in the install disk and run chkdsk repair from cmd prompt. Try repair install. Try replacing your ntfs.sys using this old XP walkthrough http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555531 ...

If you can't do that / doesn't work, hit up google with a 0x00000024 search. Loads of results pop up; seems a lot of people have success with Knoppix.

Throw the HDD in another computer and see if it boots.

It did not stay up long. Once it got to the Windows 7 login screen, I plugged in my Zune then left it, as I was going to login remotely from my laptop in another room. When I fired up Remote Desktop just a minute or so later, it failed to connect,and I figured that meant another BSOD. I was right. I am doing chkdsk again. This time I will log in to the PC directly and not connect the Zune, as I am now wondering if perhaps its software is tied to the BSOD in some way... We'll see.

Right. What is strange is that (once the BSOD first occurs) it will then occur even when I try to boot from the Windows 7 DVD. As such, I can't even perform a repair install. This leads me to believe something more than bad HDD sectors may be going on here.

4 primary partitions? Delete one and make an extended one in its place, solved my problem. "Backup the data on the partition you'll delete first so you can restore it later. If you can't boot into an OS to do this use GPartedLiveCD.

I think it is a problem with Windows 7 seeing 4 primary partitions as only people with W7 have had this problem and Windows XP on another partition worked fine while W7 suffered with this problem.

Unfortunately, that didn't work. Even with only one primary partition (XP--I deleted HP_RECOVERY) and an extended partition with one logical drive on it (Windows 7 Beta), I still eventually get the STOP error and BSOD. It is very frustrating. I have tested the HDD using the WD Data LifeGuard Tools and, as I suspected, it passed every test without error. I have purchased another SATA drive to install in my PC so that I can install Windows 7 to its own primary partition on it. We'll see how that goes.