Well Nick. After over 30 hours from the last 48 messing, trying to get note red running ( and never used a forum before,,,). I needed to get this node red install and a few tutorials under the belt and crossed off the list. The only answer left was a Ubuntu partition or off a dvd finally yeap, sorted that for sure...
I can still get into the windows Environment but only through the task manager and then running a new task with either cmd or power shell ah ha and getting the c prompt. all looks fine but laptop now is just a chocolarty saucepan. Lol should have gone to bed at 17:30,
However in the last 30 minutes i got the old PC from the damp shed and configured the network, made a cup of tea and installed node red. You are sureley welcome to any files from the DELL laptop, just have to give me a day or so to sort it out
