Continuous BSOD after hard shutdown

Hi all,

Probably very dumb on my part, but I did a hard shutdown after a hang-up after waking up my computer. I normally wait and then do a restart since my computer is sometimes very slow after waking. I now get a continuous BSOD, cannot get access to Safe Mode (only Setup and Diagnostics which is running now--no problems detected so far), and I even get the BSOD when trying to boot from my Windows 7 cd.

I don't have access to any dump files of course, but I do remember seeing something about ntfs.sys on the BSOD. I can post the other info from the BSOD after the diagnostics is finished, but is there anything I can do to boot my computer in safe mode at least? I have a Dell Alienware M17x running Windows 7 64 bit.

Thanks.

Thank you, Arc. I am running it now.

Don't know if this means anything, but I ran the SeaTools long test and left the house. When I came back I touched the mousepad (as is my habit when returning to my computer, even though the screen was not dark) the top half of the display got funky and the motherboard let out a continuous beep. I didn't know what I was looking at to begin with, and I couldn't read any text since the screen had a corrupted look to it so I rebooted. I'm running the long test again.

Ok ran the long test and passed. Tried to reboot and got the BSOD. The message says ntfs.sys PAGE FAULT IN NON-PAGE AREA. Found some other forums from people with the same problem. No solutions posted but might be a bad HDD. I just had a new HDD installed about 2 months ago and it has worked fine since.

I would love to be able to get that far lol. I cannot even get Windows to boot in safe mode. I get the BSOD before I even get the option to hit F8. I get the option to enter setup and startup options, or to start Windows normally or run start up repair. But no matter what I try as soon as Windows starts loading drivers it crashes.

Well I was able to run startup repair. Every diagnostic passed except system restore (error code 0x1f) and system files integrity check and repair (error code 0x490). I was able to open the command prompt and entered chkdsk /f /r as instructed, but I get a different message: "Cannot lock current drive. Windows cannot run disk checking on this volume because it is write protected."

Quick update: prior to my last post I booted my pc with Ubuntu (via a cd) just to grab my most recent files that I didn't back up. It was my first time using Ubuntu so I just selected "Try Ubuntu without installing." After I restarted my computer I was able to run the startup repair, and after my previous post my computer starts up and runs normally now. I haven't the foggiest idea of what happened lol. All I know is I LOVE Ubuntu and I'm going to install it!

Thank you all for your help!