Disk errors %100 and more

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I have researched my problem and can't seem to find a permanent solution.

I was doing some BIOS work, during restart and system stability check my pc tried to update.
The update failed causing all around errors including %100 use of my drive.

I searched low and high doing everything I could to fix this problem.
After system restores, registry edits, local services edit, uninstalls, proper updates.
I came to the solution as it was my AV Trend Micro. After it's faulty update was causing problems.
I removed it and the error was fixed.

Until just now I was playing a game and the error began to happen again.
I have done a clean install of Chrome without the previous AV extensions, the AV no longer exists on my system to my knowledge.

Could this be a problem with my Catalyst drivers? I did notice that I lost about an inch on my monitor around the edges and am currently using GPU scaling to have it somewhat corrected. I did not have to do this before the errors.

Is there a way I can wipe everything on C without wiping my D drive?(it's the same HDD)
Basically do a restore & clean install at the same time.

Do you have any other suggestions or ideas as to how to fix this, possible reasons, etc?

The system I am having problems with-
ASUS CM1745 CA
Windows 8.1 x64
F2A85-M
AMD A8-5500 APU integrated Radeon HD 7670
5.47 GB RAM Usable
1 TB Toshiba HDD

Other solutions that did not completely resolve issue-
BITS
Removing AV
Repairing Registry
No HDD errors found by Windows
 
Solution
Another option if you have a recovery partition on the hard drive... Reboot, and during the reboot press and hold SHIFT-F8. Should take you to the recovery section.

See advanced repair options
Troubleshoot
Refresh Your PC <-- Nothing gets lost. Window files are refreshed.
Are you certain there are no physical errors on that C: drive? Have you run Check Disk on it?

If not, do it. If you are getting errors from the hard drive, it could be failing. Open Explorer (not Internet Explorer), right click on C:, select Properties, and click on the TOOLS tab. Then click on Check Disk. If you get errors, get whatever data is on that drive off of it ASAP. If there are no errors, and you want to format the C: partition and start over with it, the best way would be to boot from your Windows disc and select format the C: partition when it asks.

You might also want to download CCleaner and let it clean things up.

http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download
 

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Yes I have ran disk check... About 8 times already. Lol ran manual checks. Have no idea what's going on but I can't find any reason to suspect my drive is failing except for the %100 issue
 

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I have a redistributor version of Windows and I'm pretty certain I will lose it if I attempt this though. Any ideas on that?
 
I'm hope you have a thumb drive you can spare.

If you do not know your Windows Registration Key, download and run the belarc advisor. When its done, it will open a new tab with its results. Scroll down a bit, and find Software Licenses. Under that, will be the software that is installed on your system, and any keys the program could identify. Write down the key for Windows, and keep it handy.

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

Then go to the following page, and setup a bootable thumb drive with Windows Recovery on it. Then boot from that thumb drive, and there should be multiple options for trying to repair your system.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-usb-recovery-drive

If that doesn't work, You can get a copy of windows for a thumb drive or an ISO at the following link. You should then be able to reinstall Windows if you decide you need to do that.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-reset-refresh-media
 

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Yeah, I probably have too many thumb drives. Thank you for this, although I will try it as a last resort.
 
Another option if you have a recovery partition on the hard drive... Reboot, and during the reboot press and hold SHIFT-F8. Should take you to the recovery section.

See advanced repair options
Troubleshoot
Refresh Your PC <-- Nothing gets lost. Window files are refreshed.
 
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Jon-Doe

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I'll try that right now
 

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Thank you both for the assistance.

After a refresh, I had the ability to truly see what was causing the issue. It was Windows as I suspected but hoped it wouldn't be. I have fixed it and am grateful to be a part of this community.