System Restore service entry

[Kinnyr900]

Hi,

I have windows 10. I have had problems in the past where I could not get back into windows and had to restore my operating system. I don't Like Windows built in system restore. So my question is? If I leave the windows system restore turned on for a day. So that it can create a restore point that I can go back to if I need it, and then I turn off the system restore but I don't delete the restore point that it created. I'm wondering if at some point let's say I could not get back into windows or safe mode, and I had to put in my windows 10 dvd and get to the advaced options menu that way could I just select command prompt and type in a command and then turn back on system restore and then from the same menu hit system restor and let windows 10 use that restore point that still should be there because it wasn't deleted. I'm wondering if it will restore my system to that earlier time. See I don't like system restore and I do not want it running all the time I just want it running long enough to be able to create 1 or 2 restore points and that's it. Then I will disable it. It would be nice though if there was a command prompt that would turn it on again even though I'm not in windows.

I would appreciate any ifo you have.

Thank you!

 

[bailojustin]

Just go to computer, system properties, system protectikn, turn off system restore, and while on that screen there is an option to create a restore, create one and in the future you can always revert back to that saved restore even if system protections not on.

 

[mcnumpty23]

could just use some thing like free macrium reflect instead i created a partition--imaged my windows into it and entered it to the boot menu

and copied my windows disk into it

now when i turn on i have the option to boot to windows

or to boot to macrium and restore my pc using the image

or to boot to the partition and install windows if my image was to prove faulty

find it much more reliable than system restore

 

[Kinnyr900]

Just go to computer, system properties, system protectikn, turn off system restore, and while on that screen there is an option to create a restore, create one and in the future you can always revert back to that saved restore even if system protections not on.

Well, how do I revert back to that saved restore point even if the system restore service is disabled/turned off. And is there a command prompt entry that I can use to turn it back on again if I can't get nack into windows 10. I mean because my system crashed and I can't get back into windows. And once I type in the command prompt if there is one to turn back on the system restore can I thenclick on system restore and revert my system back to an earlier time when it did work, from the saved restore points? From the Windows 10 dvd that I have. See I wouldn't use system restore if I can still get into windows . Well maybe I would but that's not the issue that I would Like info on today.

Thank you!

 

[Kinnyr900]

could just use some thing like free macrium reflect instead i created a partition--imaged my windows into it and entered it to the boot menu

and copied my windows disk into it

now when i turn on i have the option to boot to windows

or to boot to macrium and restore my pc using the image

or to boot to the partition and install windows if my image was to prove faulty

find it much more reliable than system restore

Okay Great! I think I may mark this as the best solution I will have to figure out how to do all this I'm not all that tech savy, but I'm sure I will figure it out. Let me ask does this use a lot of resources. I mean does it constantly creat restore points Like windows system restore does. And is it compatable, and work with windows 10? I will wait on marking this until I get your next response


Thank you!

 

[bailojustin]

Nonono,

The way I described will restore your computer back to where ever you made the save. Even with system protection off. Usually during a time where you need to system restore you can't get into the computer. There are easy ways around like inserting your windows 10 disc, clicking install, then bottom left corner click repair and it will give you the option to system restore from a previous restore point. (The one I told you to make)

System protection is there to constantly be making system restores and backup, the protection just forces the drives to create backups and restore, but if you make one, then you can turn it off and you will always have that restore avaliable for you to revert to whenever you perfer.

 

[Kinnyr900]

Nonono,

The way I described will restore your computer back to where ever you made the save. Even with system protection off. Usually during a time where you need to system restore you can't get into the computer. There are easy ways around like inserting your windows 10 disc, clicking install, then bottom left corner click repair and it will give you the option to system restore from a previous restore point. (The one I told you to make)

System protection is there to constantly be making system restores and backup, the protection just forces the drives to create backups and restore, but if you make one, then you can turn it off and you will always have that restore avaliable for you to revert to whenever you perfer.

Well see I had system restore turned off. And my computer would not boot into windows10 all I got was a the cirlce at the blue background screen just before your computer goes into windows didn't show my name just the dorred circle that kept spinning. So I popped in my windows 10 dvd because that's all I could do and I hit the repair option first did not work so then I went to the advanced menu still from the cd and tried system restore but it would not work because system restore was truned off/disabled in windows. So I would need a command that I could use outside of windows 10 environment that I could type in to turn it back on again.

Thanks!

 

[mcnumpty23]

could just use some thing like free macrium reflect instead i created a partition--imaged my windows into it and entered it to the boot menu

and copied my windows disk into it

now when i turn on i have the option to boot to windows

or to boot to macrium and restore my pc using the image

or to boot to the partition and install windows if my image was to prove faulty

find it much more reliable than system restore

Okay Great! I think I may mark this as the best solution I will have to figure out how to do all this I'm not all that tech savy, but I'm sure I will figure it out. Let me ask does this use a lot of resources. I mean does it constantly creat restore points Like windows system restore does. And is it compatable, and work with windows 10? I will wait on marking this until I get your next response


Thank you!

no it doesnt use any resources--unless you schedule it to keep updating your image

i dont i keep one good windows image that has all the software installed i want

yes works in windows 10


in macrium you install the PE environment

then make a partition large enough to do what you want--i used 4gb for the windows disk--then if you want the macrium image as well you add that amount--can use high compression in macrium settings to reduce image size

then use easybcd to add the partition you made earlier to the boot record--example for 4gb partition

1. Download Easy BCD

2. open disk management,

3a Right click a partition with free space, and click "Shrink Volume" when it asks you to select how much space to shrink by allocate 4GB or 4096MB

3b Right Click the Unallocated Space and Click "New Simple Volume"

4. click ok through the next few screens, i recommend assigning it letter Z:\ so you dont get confused and accidentally delete it or save other files here

5. place your Windows 7 DVD in your drive and go to Computer, right click and then click Open
NOTE: At this point please make sure you have "hide protected operating system files" DISABLED as it occasionally corrupts the copy, to do this press alt in any explorer window, then click tools>folder options>views>hide protected operating system files.

6. Copy the entire contents of the DVD to your Z:\ Partition

7. open Easy BCD and click "add/remove entries" click the tab labelled WinPE,
When it asks for a path browse to "Z:\sources\boot.wim" and click ok, then click "add new entry"
NOTE: At this point there is a good chance easybcd will tell you that the operation failed, just click ok and do it again, from what i can see this is simply its way of asking if your sure, and it will work 2nd time around.

8. thats it your done, when you reboot you will have 2 options, Windows 7, and NST WinPE Image, NST WinPE image is your recovery partition and will act as if you'd put the disk in.

 

[LukeFatwalker]

I've never thought of your question, honestly I think it would be gone.

Like you, I've lost faith in Windows System Restore. I can recommend Comodo Time Machine or Rollback Rx. Both are true 1-to-1 comparisons to WSR but work a lot more reliably. I see some people recommending programs like Macrium Reflect and other disk imagers, which are good but they don't have the speed and performance of WSR or it's alternatives.