Re: Fresh install, plus personal files, still crashing.

No telling what Windows keeps on the hard drive.

The way to tell if crashing is hardware related is to do a clean install, 
that is an install on a formatted hard drive (with bare minimum hardware).

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> In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Wed, 5 Aug 2020 01:18:54 -0000 (UTC), John
> Doe <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>micky <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> My previous thread is pretty far back so to recap, I had had 50+ BSODs
>>> with 5 or more different reasons given.  
>>> 
>>> I installed the May update over my current win10 and then downloaded a
>>> whole version and installed that over it.  No change. 
>>> 
>>> Debugging was hard because it sometimes crashes before it fully boots
>>> and sometimes within 30 seconds. 
> 
> 30 seconds after it fully boots.   Sometimes longer or I coudln't have
> run the reinstall or reinstall with personal files. 
> 
>>>  Worked fine in Safe Mode
>>> 
>>> So I used that source of media, I forget t he name, and re-installed
>>> win10 keeping my personal files and nothing else
>>
>>That is not a "fresh install". You need to start with a formatted hard 
>>drive and install Windows on that BLANK hard drive, with NOTHING else.
> 
> I know it 's not a fresh install, but are you saying that one of my
> files could cause a crash even if it's not part of a any program or
> process that is running? 
> 
> Is there any reason to think it's less likely to crash if those are not
> kept on the HDD? 
> 
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