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Recovery partition won't run, keep getting blue screen. I'm leaning toward hardware failure vs software. Since its a laptop and not mine, I threw in the towel. Its not HDD or memory related and I'm not messing with the mobo/cpu on the laptop. It could also be driver related, but I can't keep it up long enough to find out.

I don't want to ruin his warranty or use one of my legit Win7 keys so he can figure that out on his own. It was disgustingly filthy too, so I am a little apprehensive towards the little bastard. lol. Let him spend the $200 for Best Buy to fix or buy a new one for $500. It is a low end model anyways.