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Assuming you can remove the hard disk and can attach it to another working Windows system, you will save yourself countless hours of work and headache by using a utility like R-Drive Image to carve out the good data. Remember, Linux NTFS support is unreliable.
Yes, you can use efivars to fix up UEFI variables and gdisk to fix up GPT partitions but remember Windows 8 also uses a BCD store. If that is what is damaged you will have to use BCDedit to rebuild or repair it.
Finally, not to be the naysayer, but you can easy brick many current versions of UEFI firmware using efivars or similar tools.
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NTFSFIX(8) System Manager's Manual NTFSFIX(8)
NAME
ntfsfix - fix common errors and force Windows to check NTFS
SYNOPSIS
ntfsfix [options] device
DESCRIPTION
ntfsfix is a utility that fixes some common NTFS problems. ntfsfix is NOT a Linux version of chkdsk. It only repairs some fundamental NTFS
inconsistencies, resets the NTFS journal file and schedules an NTFS consistency check for the first boot into Windows.
You may run ntfsfix on an NTFS volume if you think it was damaged by Windows or some other way and it can't be mounted.
OPTIONS
Below is a summary of all the options that ntfsfix accepts. Nearly all options have two equivalent names. The short name is preceded by -
and the long name is preceded by --. Any single letter options, that don't take an argument, can be combined into a single command, e.g.
-fv is equivalent to -f -v. Long named options can be abbreviated to any unique prefix of their name.
-h, --help
Show a list of options with a brief description of each one.
-V, --version
Show the version number, copyright and license
BUGS
There are no known problems with ntfsfix. If you find a bug please send an email describing the problem to the development team:
linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
AUTHORS
ntfsfix was written by Anton Altaparmakov, with contributions from Szabolcs Szakacsits.
AVAILABILITY
ntfsfix is part of the ntfsprogs package and is available from:
http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/19/37
The manual pages are available online at:
http://man.linux-ntfs.org/
SEE ALSO
mkntfs(8), ntfsprogs(8)
ntfsprogs 1.13.1 January 2006 NTFSFIX(8)