Solved. Disk wasn't inserted properly... Been moving around with the laptop in my backpack a lot lately. Didn't have a proper screw driver to open hatch with at first, but I should have got one and...

My laptop with Win10 is not booting. After hanging for about a minute on the Boot Page (the first that appears after turning on) I get a page which keeps repeating the following message:

Broadcom...

I did have a recent backup of files available so I tried formatting the HDD. The progress was extremely slow (about 10% each day) and it terminated unexpectedly at 90% when another program crashed. I...

I took out the hdd from the laptop now and got an enclosure so that it functions as an external hdd. When I connect it to another pc running win 8.1 three drives show up for the external. For each...

I can confirm that I no longer get the Broadcom message.

I am not able to get to Safe Mode using any of the options described here...

I had problems with the USB installation media so I created a disc. I don't know if it makes a difference but I don't have any original installation media so I had to create it manually. I think I am...

Thank you for the replies.

I ran Startup repair after creating USB installation media. It took a while to get through the various clicks to startup repair as the laptop was slow in responding. But...

Windows 10 froze suddenly when I went through the search results tabs of a search done on torrent-finder.info. I was using Firefox (latest version). My fear is that I may have come across a dodgy...