Pavillion Boot Disk Error

My son's Pavilion g6 has two users, his and mine. When I log in as mine, the computer seems to work fine, in and out of Safe Mode. When I log in as his user, I get the blue screen data dump, then a boot disk error. Here is what I have tried:
Restore on my user
Windows security scan (which didn't finish before shutting down)
Booting with Safe Mode on his user (didn't work)
Took out the hard disk, sprayed with compressed air and reinserted the hard drive
What options do I have? Can I delete his user? Could it be a virus? I am stumped.
I can get to all of his files but I can't stay logged on with his user.
Thanks.

Yes you can delete his user account and create a new one. Just be sure to copy his files if he has stuff he doesn't want to lose. Restart the machine before trying o create a new user account for him.
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