Malware or drive failure? Machine is crippled

It took a long time, but apparently it's good?

F:\>chkdsk
The type of the file system is NTFS.

WARNING! F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.

Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...


688640 file records processed.

File verification completed.


23688 large file records processed.


0 bad file records processed.

Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...


917472 index entries processed.

Index verification completed.


0 unindexed files scanned.


0 unindexed files recovered.

Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ...
Security descriptor verification completed.


114417 data files processed.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...


41065296 USN bytes processed.

Usn Journal verification completed.

Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems.
No further action is required.

976196607 KB total disk space.
317130556 KB in 525824 files.
307052 KB in 114418 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
835811 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
657923188 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
244049151 total allocation units on disk.
164480797 allocation units available on disk.
Failed to transfer logged messages to the event log with status 50.

I'm not sure if I have to do anything special to run a program off of a drive I'm not technically on... trying to launch mbam.exe is giving me a .dll error (sfc.dll).

simrick said:

You should be able to run MBAM, update the definitions, select a custom scan, (select rootkits) and select your OS drive. I just checked with someone who did it three days ago, without issue. Did you verify the hash when you downloaded it?

EDIT: You're running it from the rescue media, right?

Ah, sorry, I tried to launch it from it's location on my actual hard drive - I'm not super familiar with how these bootable images relate to the rest of the PC. So, I redownload and install it?

simrick said:

No. You are in the WinPESE environment, right? Kyhi has loaded a bunch of software in there - one of them is Malwarebytes Antimalware. You should see a link on your desktop in the rescue environment. Just double click it to run - it's already there. Once it's opened, see if you can update the virus definitions, then select custom scan, select ROOTKITS, select your HDD with the OS partition, then run the scan.

I must have done something wrong.

I am in some kind of rescue media - I downloaded it from the link you gave me, mounted it and ran it off a usb.
I thought there might be something like MBAM provided and looked for it when I got in here, but I don't see that.

I see shortcuts like Acronis True Image, BootIce, Recuva, etc (quite a few more).

I'm really not as ignorant as it may be beginning to seem lol - I'm not familiar with tools like this.

I guess I was supposed to extract the boot.wim?