Windows 7 Blue Screen At Startup

I've been having issues with my other laptop recently (the Studio XPS 1640 in sig). It would freeze once logged in. So I decided to reinstall windows 7. I did and it was going perfectly fine while i was reinstalling drivers and such and i flashed my DVD drive and it rebooted no problem. I was installing a Norton 360 update and it asked me to restart so i did. Then it was saying "windows is starting". Then i only saw a flash of a blue screen of death I couldn't read what it said it restarted so quickly and it does the same thing when i try safe mode. So i tried to use my installation disk to repair windows. When i click repair windows it just gives me a cursor and nothing else and never loads. When i try to reinstall windows 7 it just says Setup is starting... and never loads either. I have 2 windows 7 disks so i tried the other one and the same thing happened. Is my hard drive failing? I remember when windows froze every time it started I hooked the drive to a external hard drive and tried to recover my files and some would be corrupted and wouldn't load. Any help at all would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

Hi there.
Have you tried loading up a Linux Live CD and running a fsck?
This should check your hard drive for bad sectors.

 

Hi, I actually haven't tried that. But I hooked the hard drive to a external and hooked it to my other laptop and formatted the whole thing and put it back into the laptop. I can now load windows installation I'm not sure why it happened. I definitely need to check the hard drive. Not sure what caused this whole problem in the first place. Thanks I will check the hard drive and see if anything is wrong.

 

Hey mate.
Some more thought points:

#1 - SATA Drivers
During the installation, the partitioning part, there should be an option to "Load Drivers" for your HDD. Try inserting your Dell OS Drivers CD and loading up the AHCI driver before installing your OS again.

#2 - Dell Repair Disk
I believe Dell also provides a repair disk, it might be easier to run the check disk off that. Afterwards, if there is an error, write down the error code and call/email Dell with it. If your warranty is still valid, they'll replace the malfunction part.

#3 - External CHKDSK
If you're able to hook it up externally, you might as well check it externally. When attached, right-click the hard drive, then go to Properties. I think its under Tools, then Error-Checking.

 

argahrhaghrh!
I just read your post.
It seems like a driver you've installed corrupted your installation!

Instead, press F8 before you log into Windows 7.
Then select Safe Mode.

Safe Mode turns on your computer without activating external drivers. This should allow you to zero in on the problem!

Forget all my other suggestions, there's nothing that indicates the HDD is in error!