Windows 10

[horselady]

My pc kindly updated itself to W10 yesterday. OK, I thought, let's give it a chance. Was doing fine and then the whole thing froze, turned off and now I have the dreaded blue screen of death with a code of WDF. Any ideas how I can sort this?

[CrapAtCryptics]

Restart and tap F2 to get into safe mode - then go to start/settings/update&security/recovery and click reset this PC

[Old_Geezer]

That's an interesting code. I reckon 67% on the spelling test.

[horselady]

It won't restart. Dead as a dodo. Think I've killed it, I press F2 and the screen alternates between blue with the WDF message or black saying Preparing Automatic Repair, which sounds hopeful but it's been like that for 2 hours

[Old_Geezer]

You may have a damaged hard drive judging from these synopsis/previews.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=WDF&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b&gfe_rd=cr&ei=RlhAV8iBLKiG8Qeyt4yYDQ#q=WDF+error+code

[Old_Geezer]

Or a multitude of other things judging from the individual hits.

Can you boot into safe mode ok ?

[Old_Geezer]

This suggests that if you can get or create a Windows 10 repair disk, it could help.

http://www.windows10forums.com/threads/got-wdf_violation-after-successful-win-10-install-now-error-loop.1320/

[Hypognosis]

Well, no wonder they don't want non-programmers looking at this

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff557235(v=vs.85).aspx

Lots of pit traps. No code to stop the customer's precious hardware from falling into them.

I shouldn't really stand on the sidelines, carping on about it but it's all I can do, at the moment.

[horselady]

Yes I noticed that comment about programmers. Think our hard drive has had it. Won't even boot up when we switch on at the tower now. Bloody people, we didn't want this rubbish or request it