Windows 10 BSOD and Windows 11 Install failure

Over the last 10 days my Windows 10 installation suffered several BSOD. After similar failures trying to start a clean install (all froze or crashed quite quickly) I tried a Windows 11 install. Two attempts have now failed with a stop code error of 0xOOOO21a. What I have read suggests driver corruption or similar, but if there is no complete installation I can't see what the issue may be. Any help, please?

• OS Windows 10 pro Computer type PC/Desktop Manufacturer/Model ASUS CPU Intel i7 3.2MHz Motherboard Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. B360M DS3H (U3E1) Memory 24Gb Graphics Card(s) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Sound Card Sound Blaster Audigy Fx Monitor(s) Displays BenQ GC2870 Screen Resolution 1920x1080@60Hz Hard Drives 447GB KINGSTON SA1000M8480G
  1863GB Seagate ST2000DX002-2DV164 Cooling Water Antivirus Norton 360

I think you might need to be on BSOD thread Have you run any hardware testing programmes?

That error usually indicates corrupt system file(s). You say you attempted clean install but was unsuccessful. Did the clean install give you an error? Just a question. I want to be sure you mean an actual clean install and not an inplace upgrade. A clean install is when you remove all partitions on the drive and clean install windows on unallocated space. Is that what you have tried.???

I'll just add that clean installing can sometimes be tricky due to lack of drivers initially but if you can get as far as the desktop and start doing windows updates. What I find helps with a clean install sometimes, is to erase the drive first. And I then reformat it and then erase the MBR GPT and reformat it again. (I use parted magic via usb to do that). It is then like a brand new drive that has never had anything on it, and no little gremlins left in the mbr structure. Assuming you have all personal files backed up first and can reinstall them again later!

I'm also querying clean install like Glasskuter - you mean you have Windows 11 burned to a usb stick to install that way? On one of my laptops it really hates a clean install of Windows 11 and I actually have to clean install Windows 10 first, let it all update and then let it upgrade to Windows 11. Maybe partly drivers and maybe partly something else!

If it was blue screening on Windows 10 then that doesn't mean Windows 10 is the issue. Either the system had corrupted files (as mentioned above) or possibly some hardware failure.

It was a clean install, using the installation produced by the Windows media creation tool. I deleted the existing partition and made a new one, then installed to the new partition. The initial installation was onto a 1TB SSD, after several BSoD I installed onto a 500GB HDD and managed to get to the desktop. I had 'thought' I'd fixed the problem with the change to the HDD but woke up this morning to another BSoD. Since it apparently isn't a disc error, is this a hardware issue (Motherboard?)