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Boot & Live Disks not working. Can't clean install.

I've been very frustrated with my computer recently. It crashed one day when I was listening to music. I rebooted only to find out it hangs at starting windows.

Tried to go into recovery tools and this or that, but kepts getting BSOD. Usually Memory related.

Now I downloaded and burned a Windows 7 boot disk & a Backtrack R5 boot disk. Checked the md5 hash on the downloads and it checked out.
Both disks booted and operated on my second computer, but not my trouble computer.

My Windows boot disk hangs at Starting Windows.
My Linux boot disk hanged after startx. And now won't boot due to HDD errors. I can post specifics later if necessary.

Again both disks worked fine on my other computer.

Thought it was a corrupted HDD so I ran Seagate SeaToolsforDos on a cd and my HDD passed all the tests.
I also ran MemTest but I didn't really know how to read anything I was seeing.

Do you think it's related to my memory or something else? It seems like I can't really boot into any GUI environments even on LiveCD's.

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