Windows 7 Startup failure, Startup Repair says "Bad Driver"

[NightSurge]

First off, this is my first post here in quite some time! Good to be back on here.

Now for the problem. I have a custom built machine (one I built when I was on here last probably), and I got a new hard drive because my old one died. I installed Windows 7 on this new hard drive and every so often the computer fails to load Windows. I'd say every 1 out of 4 boots, it fails at startup. It gets to the screen saying "Starting Windows" with the glowing orbs that form the Windows logo, sits there for a while, then reboots and asks me to launch startup repair or to try and load Windows normally.

So I ran startup repair and go the following results:

I am guessing, though I haven't tried it yet, that a new firmware for the hard drive could fix this issue? Or perhaps the driver is related to other motherboard features/chipset? Could it be a different failed driver other than the HDD, such as the video card or LAN or USB that is causing the conflict?

Any heads up would be great!

 

[office politics]

it says external media. do you have a external drive connected or a card reader?

 

[Lexluethar]

See if there is anything in %SystemRoot%\MEMORY.DMP file. I know these aren't blue crash screens but i'd like to see if it's dumping anything there.

Great to see you back.

 

[NightSurge]

I will reply tonight once I have gotten a chance to take a look at the system again. I have no external media plugged into the system as of right now. I on occasion will have an external hard drive connected. But the only thing I have plugged in when I was testing this issue was the wireless mouse/keyboard USB dongle.