Primary partiton corrupted?

[Deleted member 12106]

I got a laptop that was dropped off for me to a take a look at. I figured it was just the run of the mill mass infection of malware...

Nope. It doesn't boot the OS. I figure, well, let's hook it up to the desktop.

I can get on the secondary partition, but not the primary, where the OS and user's files are at.

I am unsure what I can do that would safely bring the partition back, windows wants me to format the disk