Turns out it was a mixture of things;
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I ran CHKDSK to do a full scan and repair which found multiple problems and corrected them.
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I found that my wifi was running extremely slowly and kept dropping out even though the signal strength was good.
Solved the WiFi dropping out by using powerline adapters connected via Ethernet cable to the router in the house and another powerline connected to the man cave pc by Ethernet cable.