i came across this site from google through this thread
http://www.techsupportforum.com/showthread.php?t=41516
i am having this same problem. i have recently got a new hd and before that, several weeks before, i got more ram. both have been working fine untill recently i did some basic stuff like run disk cleanup. it refused to clean the compressed files part which had about 5gb worth of stuff on. so i cleared the rest. it then rebooted randomly. as it loaded into windows, it rebooted again. on the 3rd time it didnt reboot but just hang there frozen. so i did my normal stuff. tried safe mode. same affect. random booting and freezing. i tried booting from the disk aswell and it would always hang at "Starting Windows". eventually, once i waited long enough from that cd error it gave me the blue screen. i looked about on the internet on one of the other computers and lots of places were saying stuff like hardware problems. so i thought ill unplug my secondry hd, which is my new one. it works fine now. i can get into windows easily. nothing hangs or reboots. so far any way. but im a bit dissapointed to think that it could be my harddrive. im still worried about this blue screen telling me things about the file "partmgr.sys" which i found in the drivers folder under system32. has anyone else got any knowledge on this? my hd worked fine before today as i was running debian on it.
http://www.techsupportforum.com/showthread.php?t=41516
i am having this same problem. i have recently got a new hd and before that, several weeks before, i got more ram. both have been working fine untill recently i did some basic stuff like run disk cleanup. it refused to clean the compressed files part which had about 5gb worth of stuff on. so i cleared the rest. it then rebooted randomly. as it loaded into windows, it rebooted again. on the 3rd time it didnt reboot but just hang there frozen. so i did my normal stuff. tried safe mode. same affect. random booting and freezing. i tried booting from the disk aswell and it would always hang at "Starting Windows". eventually, once i waited long enough from that cd error it gave me the blue screen. i looked about on the internet on one of the other computers and lots of places were saying stuff like hardware problems. so i thought ill unplug my secondry hd, which is my new one. it works fine now. i can get into windows easily. nothing hangs or reboots. so far any way. but im a bit dissapointed to think that it could be my harddrive. im still worried about this blue screen telling me things about the file "partmgr.sys" which i found in the drivers folder under system32. has anyone else got any knowledge on this? my hd worked fine before today as i was running debian on it.