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I had a VM but somehow the virtual drive got corrupted? And it wouldn't let me install, update or uninstall VC++ runtime as a result. I'm gonna try again later, but it's a worrying start.
That just sounds like classic Winsanity right there, not a hard drive issue.
I've had another try, this time I set chattr +C on the image directory just in case my using btrfs was causing issues.