Bootcamp Windows 7 'C:/Windows is corrupt and unreadable'?

Hi,
Most of my family and i are and have been Mac/Apple enthusiasts for a while, but recently i have been using Windows 7 via bootcamp for certain software and such. Windows was working fine until today, when i started my MacBook Pro 13" computer (Mid 2010) and did the usual thing to get into windows (Hold Alt/Option key while starting and running windows from there) the normal startup screen was not displayed, but there was simply a 'loaidng files' bar at the bottom. after the bar had finished loading, it went straight to disk repair. As soon as the disk repair came up, a message box saying something along the lines of '...C:/Windows is corrupt and unreadable.' (there was something before C:/, but i cannot remember exactly what was said). At this point, i could do absolutely nothing but close the message for it to come up again (note that the disk repair was still going on behing this message. (this same thing happens every time i start Windows via bootcamp)
After a while of searching, i found nothing that i thought would help me with the exception of running the Windows 7 Disc and running a system repair. I selected the version to run, then selected the option that runs with the settings of the last time it ran correctly. All seemed fine untill i got to the screen where it ask wether to install (repair and help buttons in the bottom left corner), at which point i clicked on the repair option. A screen saying it was looking for Windows intallations came and went and the repair screen came up and the same message '...C:/Windows is corrupt and unreadable' was displayed.
Please help, i can probably fully reinstall Windows 7 via bootcamp and keep all of the documents/files i had, but that would mean i would have to get and reinstall ALL of the programs i had on there, and that would take me almost two full days of fidling around with discs and downloads, let alone the internet usage that would use for the digital versions i bought.
is there a way around this reinstall? Please help.
Thank you in advance,
Rylando

Unless you have a backup already you will not be able to save anything, not data files or applications. Of course you will also need to restore the Mac hard drive to as it was prior to the Boot Camp (Windows) partition being created, this must be done with Boot Camp, not Disk Utility. Then reinstall Windows and all applications.
All files currently in the Windows partition will be erased.

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