Windows 10: Windows no longer boots because of disk corruption

Hello, my Win 10 64-bit suddenly quit booting. I installed Linux on a separate partition and fdisk says Partition 1 where windows is installed does not start on physical sector boundary.Disk /dev/sda: 698.7 GiB, 750156374016 bytes, 1465149168 sectorsUnits: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytesSector size logical/physical: 512 bytes / 4096 bytesI/O size minimum/optimal: 4096 bytes / 4096 bytesDisklabel type: dosDisk identifier: 0x0009c034Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type/dev/sda1 * 63 315546477 315546415 150.5G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT/dev/sda2 315547648

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How to make a flash drive boot disk?

I still suggest Ultimate Boot CD, I have the link a few posts back. You can boot to DOS and run the flashing utilities right off your hard disk, it's safer too because you don't have to worry about a corrupt floppy.

 

Unable to boot into Windows - Disk Corrupted

• If your BIOS was set to UEFI then Windows was installed using GPT partition scheme. There are 2 modes to boot the USB from: Legacy and UEFI, you should not change the BIOS setting to Legacy.
• BootRec /FixMbr and BootRec /FixBoot only work with MBR partition scheme, yours is GPT
  

1. Download: Rescue.V6.1.1311.iso - Google Drive and use Rufus to create a bootable USB with format: FAT32, MBR partition scheme for BIOS or UEFI
   
   
   
2. set your BIOS back to UEFI and boot up from the USB (select UEFI boot mode).
3. Click on "Fix Windows boot problems"
   
   
   
   

 

Windows folder corruption proliferation?

I upgraded my laptop to Windows 8.1 Pro Preview a while ago, and everything seemed fine at first. I haven't used the laptop much since then (it has been running nearly 24/7 though), but now I'm having some problems with folder corruption/writing. Windows updates no longer install because the SoftwareDistribution folder is corrupt, Steam no longer runs as of today because the Steam Application directory is not writable (I've been having issues with Steam constantly asking to update even after updating), BOINC no longer works as of today, Chrome doesn't remember anything (asks me to sign in every time and Adblock keeps asking me to configure it), and I can't set msconfig to boot the PC in safe boot to delete the SoftwareDistribution folder because it "cannot save the original boot configuration for later restoration, boot changes will be reverted. The system cannot find the file specified."

Is there any hope for not having to reformat this piece of junk? Disk Check comes up empty and HDTune (has been in installed for a few months) says the disk is perfectly fine. :shadedshu