I've been using my PC running Windows 10 without issues for years. Recently, I replaced two old SATA HDDs with new SATA SSDs to boost my storage. I made sure to uninstall everything from the old drives and disabled them in disk management before disconnecting them completely. However, after physically connecting the new SSDs, my system wouldn't load Windows and threw a boot error. My OS is on one of the NVME M.2 drives, and despite formatting those drives, I couldn't install Windows on them as the installer wouldn't let me due to existing system partitions. The only option left was to install Windows on one of the SATA SSDs, which initially seemed successful until the system crashed (BSOD) while downloading drivers and Steam games. Now, every attempt to boot leads to crashes either before or just after loading Windows. I've even removed the new drives and re-formatted the NVME drives, but I still get BSOD when trying to boot from my recovery USB. This has been incredibly frustrating, and I'm out of ideas on how to proceed, especially since no hardware other than the storage drives has changed.
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You might want to create a bootable USB with Hiren's Boot CD. It comes with great testing tools for your RAM, drives, CPU, and GPU. If you're still encountering issues while booting from it, then I suggest using Memtest86 to check your RAM for errors.
I tried Hiren's Boot CD on a flash drive, but it keeps going into a blue screen after the loading files screen. So I can't even run Memtest86—the error I keep seeing is SYSTEM THREAD EXCEPTION NOT HANDLED.