Win 7 / 8 dual boot problem

scutch10

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Spent a lot of time last night trying to research this with no luck, so any help provided will be greatly appreciated.

Sunday night: Installed Windows 8 Pro as second OS on my laptop. After installation, set Windows 7 as my default OS.

Monday: Work as expected (both OS's)

Tuesday: After leaving Win 8 open for a while, I went to "wake-up" the system. It responded extremely slow. After I power cycled the computer, neither OS will boot. When I attempt to boot Win 7, the system gets stuck at start-up screen. When I attempt to start Windows 7 Recovery Options the system gets stuck while loading drivers.

When I attempt to boot in Win 8, the system get stuck at the loading page then crashes and restarts. Recovery results are similar to Win 7 attempts; I have the install disc I loaded the OS from and when I attempt to repair the computer, get a blank black screen.

Repair attempts: I can get to the command prompt when attempting to repair Win 8 from disc. From there I ran chkdsc on all drives and all scanned good with the exception of my F: drive (Win 8). This stated that the device was not ready.

Any clues?

Thanks,

Steve
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win7/Win8/Ubuntu 12.10
Might be bad sectors on the hard drive.
Run the hard drives diagnostic software to be sure.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    7, 8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    CPU
    AMD Phenom II 1090T 6 Core @ 3.8Ghz
    Motherboard
    Asus Crosshair IV Formula
    Memory
    16 GB Ripjaws
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA GeForce GTX 780 6GB SC with ACX Cooler , GTX 750Ti
    Sound Card
    HDMI connected to a Denon AVR-3312 Cerwin Vega x7. Def Tech Sub
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung 65" Ultra High Def HU8550
    Screen Resolution
    3840x2160 60Hz over HDMI 1.4!!
    Hard Drives
    2TB Samsung 204UI
    Samsung 840 256GB
    PSU
    1000w Thermaltake Toughpower. 2000VA UPS, 1000VA UPS
    Case
    Lian Li Something
    Cooling
    Corsair H50 Water
    Keyboard
    Logitech K270 Wireless
    Mouse
    Logitech Couch Mouse
    Internet Speed
    100Mbps
    Browser
    Maxthon 4
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender
    Other Info
    Asus AC-68R Router with 8TB of storage attached
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