Windows 7 Hangs on Startup

[tatteredpotato]

Recently I've been having troubles booting my one Windows 7 machine. I'll get to the boot screen and it'll sit there for 10 seconds or so before just shutting off and rebooting. Next time around it asks me if I want to go to the startup repair utility. If I do that startup repair can't fix the problem and gives me the following information:

Problem Event Name: StartupRepairOffline
ProblemSignature 01: 0.0.0.0
ProblemSignature 02: 6.1.7600.16385
ProblemSignature 03: unknown
ProblemSignature 04: -1
ProblemSignature 05: AutoFailover
ProblemSignature 06: 9
ProblemSignature 07: BadPatch
OS Version: 6.1.6700.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033

The "Bad Patch" makes me think that there was a botched update that is causing this issue.

So anyways I load up system restore, but that doesn't work either because the System drive, which was previously C:\, is marked as D:\ by the utility. It says I can't restore to it because it's not the system disk.

My configuration before was a 250GB SATA HDD for the OS and a 1TB SATA HDD for other misc files. I've tried booting with only the one drive and the system restore utility still flags it as D:\.

I seem to be having two issues:

1) I have applied an update that seems to have left me unable to boot and
2) My C: drive is now labeled D:

EDIT: Is there anyway to disable the emoticons for this post?

 

[EricMartello]

It's usually a bad driver that causes something like this. :\

Have you tried booting in safe mode? D: