BSOD: Error code 0x24 (which scopes as NTFS.SYS related)

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The BSOD comes during boot, so is not easily chased down.

• HDD passes: SpinRite 6 certified drive as 100% error-free after level 3 diagnostic was allowed to run on all partitions
• No viruses were found anywhere by any scanner I've thrown at the system. A half-dozen false-positives (easily detected as such) were caught on the Linux partition.
• Unable to boot to Windows at all. Not Safe Mode, not even Recovery Console. All produce the reported BSOD.

The problem might go away if I can run CHKDSK /R /F /V (yes, I use /V frequently), but (see third point of bullet list) can't get to a command prompt.

Is there any way to run CHKDSK if you cannot get a WinRE session running? If there isn't, I am totally stuck. Don't currently have the bits of hardware needed to dismount the HDD of this laptop and troubleshoot it using another machine, and (due to a hacker) not enough money to even consider attempting to acquire said bits of hardware at the present.

 

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In general, it is either the memory or the HDD. Some other chances may also remain there, but difficult to say without checking a crash dump.

Test your RAM modules for possible errors.

How to Test and Diagnose RAM Issues with Memtest86+
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Run memtest86+ for at least 8 consecutive passes.

If it start showing errors/red lines, stop testing. A single error is enough to determine that something is going bad there.

Let us know the result. A camera snap of the memtest86+ screen before closing the program will be good.

Also test the HDD using Seatools for DOS. Take both the short test and the long test. Let us know the result.