Windows 7 booting issues

Caporegime
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Turned my pc on this morning to be greeted by it sitting on the starting windows animation and going no further after 10 minutes. Rebooted, same issue. Tried again an it gave me the option for start-up repair, chose that and no luck, just sat there loading for 20 minute plus. Tried again and after a while it went into the start-up repair program but immediately froze.

A few more tries and the same outcome every time, freezes as soon as you get an option to try and repair. Tried to boot from the win 7 disc but anytime I do I end up getting a bad pool caller error and that's when it even bothers to try and load from the disc, a lot of the time it just seems to sit on the loading animation and go no further after 30+ minutes.

Safe mode only loads so far before it just stops dead in its tracks when its listing the files its loading in. Tried last known good config etc and nothing works.

I've tried the above on default bios settings and my saved overclocked settings, all yield the same results.

I'm guessing this might be an mbr issue, seen some commands to use but how do I use them when any option for using a command line fails to run?

I know there's some bootable iso files out there that might sort this issue, just looking for recommendations as to what to use.
 
Sounds more like a RAM or Hard disk failure to me. More than likely Ram, unles your HD access has changed from AHCI to IDE or you are getting a Driver conflict. If you are not getting the BSOD then it will more than likely be a hardware error of some kind. Don't even rule out the Graphics card or PSU.
Sometimes it could even be a USB device like a MEMory stick or even an external HD causing the issue So it is important to eliminate them one by one. Start by unplugging your external Hardware except Mouse, keyboard and monitor. Make sure it is not a long beep when the computer restarts because if you have a separate internal Sound Card that could cause issues.
Basically unplug everything that is not necessary for the PC to boot into Windows. Then proceed from there.
 
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