Thanks, 2 things in your answer assisted me. I ran chkdsk which didn't seem to pick up any errors. And you mentioned 3GB, I have 4GB of RAM of which 2.92GB is usable. I decreased the RAM on my VM to 2GB just in case.
Which is the one that worked, I cannot say, but it did indeed work! I believe it is because of an error on my disk.
Thank you!