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Approximate Purchase Date: e.g.: this week Budget Range: 600-700 System Usage from Most to Least Important: Photoshop, Quickbooks, Surfing...NO GAMING Are you buying a monitor: NO Do you need to buy OS: No Preferred Website(s) for Parts: newegg.com Location: Seattle, Washington Parts...

Approximate Purchase Date: e.g.: this week Budget Range: 600-700 System Usage from Most to Least Important: Photoshop, Quickbooks, Surfing...NO GAMING Are you buying a monitor: NO Do you need to buy OS: No Preferred Website(s) for Parts: newegg.com Location: Seattle, Washington Parts...

Run memtest and seatools for DOS Testing hardware should always be the first step in these types of situations. Easy to do and usually yields results

Very glad to see you got it workin. It might be a good idea to get a new HDD..

It would be a good to idea to test both your hdd and memory Seatools DOS http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/ Memtest: http://www.memtest.org/

Interesting results from gparted. It just seems like your harddrive has bad sectors... Perhaps try Seatools for DOS to test your HDD (my favorite hdd tool) and do a long test. http://www.seagate.com/support/internal-hard-drives/consumer-electronics/ld25-series/seatools-dos-master/

If you can get UBUNTU to boot properly, that would tell a lot. Prior to the BSODs, did you happen to install anything such as drivers/software? Are you able to boot into safe mode? If so, try a system restore to a time before the BSOD started to occur. If you cant boot into safemode, try...

Do a Memtest http://www.memtest.org/#downiso

Definitely check your hdd's health http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=seatools-win&vgnextoid=552bd20cacdec010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD Or, my favorite... http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html 1. Download Seatools or Ultimate Boot (includes seatools) 2. Create...

Which brand do you have?

Perhaps give subinacl a shot. I use it to fix windows update if updates are failing to install. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't; but its worth a shot either way. http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=23510

Approximate Purchase Date: To be purchased on christmas Budget Range: 300-400 System Usage from Most to Least Important: Internet, listening to music, relatively simple applications (Word, light photo editing programs) and other casual usage. Parts Not Required: Monitor, keyboard, speakers...