Bootres.dll is corrupt

[strat guy]

Hey guys, run into a bit of trouble here. So I needed to change a dying CMOS battery on my motherboard but upon restart the computer wouldn't recognize the boot disk which is a regular samsung sata ssd. Turns out it was just a loose connection but I'm stuck in a repair loop, ran through all of the options and it can't auto repair. The SrtTrail.txt says

 

root cause found

 

boot critical file c:\efi\microsoft\boot\...... bootres.dll is corrupt

 

repair action: file repair

 

result: failed  error code 0x57

 

I tried the bootrec commands /fixmbr completed successfully, /fixboot access denied, /scanos and /rebuildbcd says "total identified windows installations 0" 

 

also, the command prompt is an x: but I can move into the C drive where the OS is installed.

 

currently downloading a windows flashdrive to try and repair it but I really hope this won't require a complete fresh install. 

 

any ideas ? 

 

thanks in advance.