Its just to post an update to the situation. I kept fiddling about with different settings, etc and eventually decided to do a repair on the Windows installation. It got most of the way through to the point where it said ‘Plase wait while setup initializes your Windows installation’ saving configuration … and then froze on me.

Unfortunately, when I restarted the system it had lost the configuration and the Windows files. I tried again but the same problem occured. I tried to force it to start at the last setting Windows had run on but this failed as did starting it in Safe Mode - come on M’Soft; get your act together as this should not happen!!

Anyway, I’m now at the point where I’m probably going to have to format and reinstall; unless anyone has any ideas?

A big thanks to all for your help, we nearly got there!