Windows 10: My C Drive seems to be corrupted, and I’m at a loss on how to fix it

For reference, I started having problems shortly after a power surge happened during a storm. I don’t know if it’s related, or just bizarre timing. Anyway, here are the problems and solutions I’ve attempted:1. When I reach my Home Screen, I am flooded with notifications telling me various software cannot be recognized, i.e. “Windows cannot access C:\\Program Files… . Error Code:8007005Attempted Solutions after understand the C Drive is the problem:-run sfc scannow as admin and the following commands. Result:cannot accomplish as I have no admin privileges and when I try to change this, the soft

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Programs not working

In post 26 there were steps listed to fix the operating system corruption.
Are you able to follow them?
In post 29 was the suggested dism repair command.

 

C drive(OS) space loss

I recently installed windows 10 version 1709 ,and later updated to version 1903. i see that the space in c drive is gradually decreasing without any reason,,space occupied by the programme file is fixed. i noticed that about 2.5 gb space is occupied by pagefiles.
i have 6 gb RAM with 2.6 gb virtual memory, but page file is creating spontaneously.i have no perfomance issue and everything is working fine except gradual space loss in c drive..my c drive space is 124 gb and 75 gb still remaining.should i delete page file
to prevent progressive c drive space loss??

Note: I am a medium user,not running any game in my laptop, so my 6gb RAM should not be used fully so that page file need to be created.

Thanks in advance.

 

Corrupt file - Can't fix. [Fixed]

Hi Vincent,

Thank you for posting your concern here in Microsoft Community.



Before proceeding, please check if the same issue occur when logged in through a different user account.

Ref: Add or remove accounts on your PC - Microsoft Support

Please perform the below steps and see if it helps to resolve the issue.

This issue may happen due to system file corruption. I suggest you to run System file checker. System File checker (SFC) scan is done to check if there are any corrupted system files that could be causing this issue. Kindly follow
the below given steps:

• Press Windows key + X, select
  Command prompt (Admin) to bring up elevated Command prompt.
• In Command prompt type sfc/scannow and press enter.
• Restart the computer.

If no corrupted system files were found in the previous state, then I suggest you to try the following steps:

• Open command prompt by pressing Windows key + X and selecting “Command prompt admin”.
• In command prompt, type the following commands and press Enter after each command:

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Scanhealth

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth

• Close the command prompt and restart the PC and check if it works.

Hope this information helps. Please post us if you need any further assistance with Windows.

Thank you.