BSOD: Process or thread crucial to system operation has been unexpectedely termimated.

Hi All!

This problem has recently cropped up on my computer (2 days back) when I was re-installing windows (clean start).

Specs:
Win 7 64 bit...with latest updates.
Motherboard: Gibabyte GA-X58A-UD5
RAM: 12GB 1333Mhz Corsair....brand new.
Procerror: i7 930.
SSD: OCZ Vertex3 240GB
3 1TB WD hard drives (no RAID) of which 2 are good & one is failing (smart criteria).
Hard Drive Model: WDC WD10EARS -00Y5B1

The minidump & xml files:

"3 1TB WD hard drives (no RAID) of which 2 are good & one is failing (smart criteria)"... Remove the drive that is failing SMART status immediately! It could be the cause of this problem all by itself

Thanks Tmagic! I thought I could somehow repair it via software...but I have no data on it what-so-ever. Will it still cause these BSOD's?

I removed the offending hard drive & I still got one bsod just now. Please help!


Problem signature:

Problem Event Name: BlueScreen

OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3

Locale ID: 16393
Additional information about the problem:

BCCode: f4

BCP1: 0000000000000003

BCP2: FFFFFA800E4CF740

BCP3: FFFFFA800E4CFA20

BCP4: FFFFF8000319B510

OS Version: 6_1_7601

Service Pack: 1_0

Product: 768_1

Another BSOD after I started verifier.exe.

Any time a hard drive sets a SMART status failure, back up any important data and trash the drive unless it's still under warranty. The BSOD is the same:
CRITICAL_OBJECT_TERMINATION
Ntoskrnl.exe

You get this BSOD only when installing Windows?

No, I'm getting this quite regularly now....should I repair the installation?

Re-install Windows without the START drive installed. Are there any yellow exclamation points in the device manager?