Quote Originally Posted by techallenged View Post
Sometimes the wood can't be seen for the trees

I had another root around and what did I find? In system configuration there is a tab called "boot", and safe boot was ticked/checked. I unticked it, restarted and guess what? Windows boots normally.

So there we have another thing to look out for if someone else ever has this kind of problem
My friends laptop had this problem and I messed with it for hours, until I came across your post. Thanks alot bro, I truly appreciate the help