BSOD leads to disk corruption and recovery options....

After getting a BSOD (IRQ less than or equal to) this morning, I can't even boot up the Windows installation media (Windows 8 PRO) to get to a command prompt!
After pressing any key to boot to the DVD (and the DVD spins, etc) and a few minutes it comes to a 'Recovery' screen with "Your PC needs to be repaired"
Giving that it can't find winload.exe. Well no kidding, there's a reason I booted from DVD after all. I don't need you to tell me that.
Then it gives the gem that I'll need to use the recovery tools on my installation media.... Of course I BOOTED from the installation media...but that's beside the point.
Then I get to Enter to try again, or F8 to get to the menu to boot the OS. It's as though the OS from the corrupt disk is overriding the Install media even though it's disabled as a boot device in the BIOS and the only boot device I have is the Blu-Ray
Drive.
MS, you REALLY need to fix this OS. This is the 5th time I'm going to have take this disk to another PC, wipe it completely and start from scratch. A BSOD I can get over. The MASSIVE and I mean massive corruption that results from one on
the local disk is getting unacceptable. I've used every version of your OS sing 3.1 and Windows NT 3.5 didn't even give me this much trouble.
Any suggestions on how I can at least get to the recovery tools on my install media?

Hi,
You can try this guide to download Windows 8.1 image:
http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-download-the-official-microsoft-windows-8-1-iso/
Then, make a bootable USB to perform system repair.
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows-8/a/install-windows-8-usb.htm

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