@cwsink, thank you for your response. I belive I might have posted in the wrong area, but thought it could be the result of a bad update.
Anyhow, I have already purchased another laptop.
During the process, I also purchased an external 2.5 HDD case, and removed the hard drive from my old laptop and put it in the case.
After connecting to my new laptop, I was able to retrieve ALL my data from the hard drive, and have not seen any issues as of yet.
So I'm guessing the issue is with either some corrupt or bad records on the hard drive that only pertain to Windows 10, or mainly the boot process.
At this point, I no long plan to fix the old laptop as it has been slowly going for a while now. It's about 8 years old... Back when the I3 was top dog!
My may concern was being able to get to my data to retrieve it. And I was able to do that with the external case.
Once again, Thanks for the response.
