Blue Screen on Vaio VGN240F !!!!

A friend of mine got the feared BSOD on a Vaio VGN NW240F and asked me to fix it.

The fault happened with iaStor.sys which has soemething to do w/  storage drivers. This issue was so bad that even safemode produced the BSOD.

I looked all over for clues, tried a few suggested procedures but the closest I got to a solution was a Sony Forum moderator suggesting a system restore from a restore disk. 

Problem is, these laptops no longer ship with Windows disk.  It is expected that they create their own Restore disks, which, most of the time, they don't.  But they sell them for a few bucks.  It really stinks, you buy a software license but they don't ship you the darn disks.

At any rate, I was able to restore w/ a Windows 7 disk and lucky for my friend, I was able to rescue the important files and pictures using an Ubuntu Live CD and a Pen drive.

I wonder if anybody out there fixed this w/out a sys restore.

More on the BSOD message:

SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTIOPN

stop: 0x0000003B (0x00000000C000001D,0xFFFFF80002E955BB,0xFFFFF88006505C70,0x0000000000000000)

STIOL 0x000000D1 (0x0000000000000000,0x0000000000000002,0x0000000000000001,0xFFFFF880010D0771)