Clean install or not

[Vikkun]

So i was using windows 10 and decided to go down to 8.1 as 10 wasn't working well for me(i was getting lots of bsod). 

So i downloaded the fresh copy of 8.1 and put it in the usb, made it bootable and booted the 8.1 setup from it. 

While installing windows i was getting the bsod again. So far i have tried installing 3 times and all of the 3 times i got those bsod because of that window old, old.000, old. 001 and old.002 is made in my c drive and size is depleted but i still have 80 gb left in it. 

My question is should i do the clean install of windows 8.1 by deleting all the partitions (including system reserved).

What would happen to my system if i get bsod again while clean install and when i delete all the partitions would my motherboard drivers will be deleted as well? 

[GoodBytes]

BSODs are usually hardware or hardware driver problems. Each BSOD gives you an error code, which tell you what is the problem that the OS cannot recover from.

 

When you clean install, you should be doing a partition format, and so you should not have Windows.old folders.

I cannot suggest to do a restore of Windows 8.1 as we don't know what the BSODs about. If your RAM is faulty, than obviously a BSOD can happen at anytime. So Clean install.

 

[Vikkun]

24 minutes ago, GoodBytes said:

BSODs are usually hardware or hardware driver problems. Each BSOD gives you an error code, which tell you what is the problem that the OS cannot recover from.

 

When you clean install, you should be doing a partition format, and so you should not have Windows.old folders.

I cannot suggest to do a restore of Windows 8.1 as we don't know what the BSODs about. If your RAM is faulty, than obviously a BSOD can happen at anytime. So Clean install.

 

Thanks for the the reply most of the time i was getting bad pool header and ntfs file system and file system  something errors and then i did some diagnostics using softwares but no issues were found. I was getting bsod's so went to 8.1 and now bsod during installations too. Should i do the clean install now? 

[LogicalDrm]

On 14/06/2018 at 4:58 PM, Vikkun said:

Should i do the clean install now? 

 

Yes. If anything, it clears any OS isdues. Then it's easier to troubleshoot if there are any hardware problems.

[Vikkun]

9 hours ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

 

Yes. If anything, it clears any OS isdues. Then it's easier to troubleshoot if there are any hardware problems.

I did and it seems like ram is at fault there