I/O Error leads to Windows not booting up.

I'm not too computer savvy or anything like that but I'll try to explain my situation to the best of my extent.
This just started happening about 25 minutes ago. I first noticed something was wrong while I was downloading some stuff, utorrent would pop up with an error, saying there was some sort of "I/O Error" and then, I noticed that videos on youtube would kind of lag but they wouldn't stop, they'd make like a buzzing noise.
So I figured I'd turn off the computer and turn it back on, well now Windows won't start. I run Windows 7 and when I choose to run Windows normally, it'll get to that "Windows is loading" screen and eventually, it'll show a quick flash of that blue screen then restart. I've tried the other option, repair windows or something like that. It just leads me to a black screen with a cursor and does nothing.
I've tried loading it in safe mode and it'll start loading all the drivers and stuff but then it'll do the whole "quick blue screen flash, restart" thing.
Anyone know what's up?

Yvan Koenig has said he has some AppleWorks 5 files fail to open in AppleWorks 6 with the I/O error. I've never had a problem opening any AppleWorks 5 files whether they were created on a Mac or PC.
Are you sure that some of these files aren't ClarisWorks 4 or earlier files? AppleWorks 6.2.9 (the current version) can't open all ClarisWorks 4 or earlier files & gives an I/O error. There doesn't appear to be a way to predict which files will cause problems. I've had it happen & not happen with all AppleWorks file types. These files can be opened by any other version of AppleWorks 6.
I'm not clear if it's one file or all of the files you can't open. If it's just one or a few, I'd think there is some corruption in the file. If it's a lot (more than half) & you're sure they are AppleWorks 5 files, some basic troubleshooting might help.
First step, delete the AppleWorks 6 preferences as they may be corrupt, particularly the translator cache. See my user tip, AppleWorks has stopped working correctly, for more info.
Did you move these files from one Mac to another using a USB flash drive or other removable device? If the device is PC-formatted, some information in the files may have been lost in the transfer. Another user tip addresses this problem - AppleWorks 6 won't open my AW 5 files.
I'd be willing to take a look at two or three of these problem files for you & see if I can figure out where the problem is. E-mail them to me with a subject line of "I/O errors." Just click my name in blue next to this post. My public e-mail address is in the biography section.

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