Windows 10: Corrupted windows files (I think)

This morning I opened my Lenovo laptop and there was the Lenovo startup screen along with a "preparing automatic repair". After a few minutes that my laptop is stuck on this screen I checked online what should I do and saw somewhere I just need to do a "hard reboot" (long press on power button). So I did, and after the normal Lenovo startup screen, it showed a blue error screen of INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE, then proceeded to restart the device into the preparing automatic repair screen and got stuck again. Following instructions I read online, I made a usb with the windows installation tool in order to use the repair tool. When I tried recovering the registry from C:\Windows\System32\config\RegBack The folder was empty... I tried using all those repairs and stuff from that menu and the uninstall updates and all of those, and none of these worked. I really don't want to lose all the programs that are on my C drive by reinstalling windows but I fear that this is my only option. Any advice?

TL;DR: can't boot into windows, and I want to avoid losing the programs on my C drive by reinstalling windows if I can.

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Corrupted file RAR

If the archive has been created using WinRAR, why don't you try WinRAR itself? It has a built-in repair feature for repairing corrupted archive (ZIP as well as RAR). Follow the steps given below:

• Open WinRAR application in your system.
• Now click on File tab > Open or simply press Ctrl+O.
• A small window "Find Archive" will pop up. Locate the corrupt RAR archive from your system directory and select it.
• Now click Open button.
• Click Tools tab > Repair archive or simply press Alt+R.
• Again a small window "Repairing File name.rar" will pop up.
• Now click Browse to select a location to save the repaired archive.
• Check the box "Treat the corrupt archive as RAR" and click OK.
• WinRAR will start repairing of corrupt RAR archive. Once it gets completed click Close.

I hope the above steps will help you repair the corrupted RAR archive.

Thanks.

 

Microsoft Windows Home Server Corrupts Files

Microsoft has warned Windows Home Server users not to edit files stored on their backup systems with several of its programs, including Vista Photo Gallery and Office's OneNote and Outlook, as well as files generated by popular finance software such as Quicken and QuickBooks. "When you use certain programs to edit files on a home computer that uses Windows Home Server, the files may become corrupted when you save them to the home server," Microsoft said in a support document posted last week. The document went on to list the software, which includes Windows Vista Photo Gallery, Windows Live Photo Gallery, OneNote 2003, OneNote 2007, Outlook 2007, Microsoft Money 2007 and SyncToy 2.0 Beta. Others programs, however, may also corrupt files stored on a home server powered by Microsoft's operating system. "Additionally, there have been customer reports of issues with Torrent applications, with Intuit Quicken and with QuickBooks program files," the document said. "Until an update for Windows Home Server is available, we recommend that [you] do not use the programs that are listed to save or to edit program-specific files that are stored on a Windows Home Server-based system."

Source: Computerworld

 

Windows corrupt file

humm k, this thing is poping up on my taskbar.

!(yellow triangle around it) Windows - Corrupt File

The file or directory C:\windows\system32\msvcrt.dll is corrupt or unreadable. Please run the chkdsk utility.

Well I ran the chkdsk in my windows 32 folder and the problem remains*Stick Out Tongue .

Any help when someone has the spare time, is greatly apriciated.