I haven ' t been bullied at all <| sep |> I ' ve received that error when a USB device driver crashesfails . Usually for me it goes like thisUSB device stops working . I unplug it and plug it back in . BSOD pops up with the error you have as soon as it ' s plugged back in . Simply , the error seems to have something to do with a hardware or driver problem . One idea might be to unplug all of your USB devices and plug them back into different ports . If you have any unused ports , try using them instead . This will spread the power load a little differently and might deal with some causes of the IRQLNOTLESSOREQUAL error . Doing that on my machine has improved its stability considerably . As for doing a clean install , have you formatted the drive completely at this point ? If not , do that . Do you have any other hard drives in your computer ? Unplug them and try formattinginstalling Windows on the drive you want to have Windows on . Once it ' s confirmed working , plug your other drives back in .