Blue screen of death: Bad_Pool_Header

[Ashihtaka]

So only recently has my newly built (6 months or less) computer been crashing with BSOD.
It's always bad_pool_header that's causing it and I just can't figure out how to fix it.

I've ran memtest86 and all my RAM is completely fine. I really wanted to run windows repair from the windows 8 CD, but it won't let me claiming "The drive windows is installed in is locked, please unlock the drive and try again". For this, I've ran command lines to see if it was read only, and the SSD windows is installed on definitely is not read only, so I don't know how to unlock it.

I'm not certain if windows refresh will even help though, any pointers guys?
I can provide any additional info if it will be helpful.

 

[ingtar33]

bad_pool_header is always a driver problem if it isn't a ram issue. and it could be ANY driver. seriously... start downloading all the drivers from your equipment manufacturers webpage, get the latest version of each one, and replace them all.

if that doesn't help then it's a driver from a peice of software you installed. the most common types of software that install drivers would be anti-virus or firewall programs or printers. uninstall what you have (antivirus, printers, firewalls) and see if the issue vanishes. if it does then you know what caused it.

 

[Ashihtaka]

Thanks for the reply. I've read that too - I've tried to remove all programs I've downloaded from the past month (how long this has been going on) to no avail, and I haven't added any new devices to the pc. Is there any way to narrow down the culprit? I don't know how to read crash dump files but I have Bluescreenview and the output is as follows:

I'm guessing ntoskrnl.exe is the problem here as it's highlighted? but I don't know how to fix this without running windows repair tool which I'm unable to do as the drive is apparently locked.

 

[ingtar33]

ok. lets do some basic disk maintenance here. load into safe mode with command prompt, type "chkdsk /f" no quotes. start with that. if that doesn't help you can always download the "tweeking.com AIO windows repair utility" and give that a whirl.

http://www.tweaking.com/content/page/windows_repair_all_in_one.html

 

[Ashihtaka]

Here's my chkdsk output from elevated command prompt:

I'm not running anything else - I'm guessing it's "in use" because this is my boot drive.

 

[ingtar33]

hit "Y" and reboot. let it do it's check at system startup