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**carversm** · 05-26-2017, 03:32 PM

I have had a couple of friends that had boot problems and with my media creator, USB and DVD boot disk. go to the second screen and click on repair. Trouble shoot etc., Restore and it said there are not restore points, It says to reboot to identify the system.
Could one go to the command prompt to force a restore.
One of the computers I looked at the disk with USERS in it and then copied the files from
\windows\system32\config\regback ( they all have to have sizes greater than zero. )
My friend had used the HP recovery option that I suspect was windows 7 over Windows 10.
The computer came up, did some repairing and then recovered.
So the files in the \REGBACK were for Win 10.

I've not seen anything about using restore via command line.
Remember this is booted from Win 10 .ISO choosing repair on the second screen.
Thanks

**Compton** · 05-26-2017, 03:52 PM

it sounds like a restore was not created so which mean you have no restore point to restore from

**carversm** · 05-26-2017, 05:19 PM

(05-26-2017, 03:52 PM)Compton Wrote: it sounds like a restore was not created so which mean you have no restore point to restore from

That could be and Windows 10 seems to turn off restore in about 50% of the computers I see, but I set up the friends and it was on.
I went and found something about the offline part of rstui command pointing it at the disk that has Windows/USERS.
Will try next time, hopefully it does not happen again.
Also the files that were in the REGBACK folder were VERY different in size as opposed to the\CONFIG folder.
Thanks

**Compton** · 05-26-2017, 05:47 PM

ok let's go back a little here the computer stop booting to windows?

so what you did is to boot up a windows 10 usb or installation disc to use a restore point and the restore point is not showing

the question is why the system is not booting to windows could be because of virus/malware which could corrupt the restore point and registry backup

do you have important data that you need on the system?

**carversm** · 05-28-2017, 04:29 PM

You won't like this but he messed it up with probably playing with BCD editor or something and don't ask
how I got it back I believe I copy all the good things from the
\windows\system32\config\regback and they all must have a size to them. Read that on some forum as a last resort,to the config folder. Then it booted, repaired itself and it worked.
He tool it home, and then later "knocked it off the table to the floor" No boot and hard disk damage.
Check disks fixed the bad sectors, it took several runs and I can see data so "windows" has bad places so won't boot.
I'll probably try cloning to a new disk which he gave me and reinstall windows and his stuff should be in the Windows.old folder, no
programs of course.
The point being that booting from the media creator DVD says there are no restore points when in fact there are.
I had tried to make a recovery drive and that failed. Probably should have tried an even larger USB stick, maybe 16 GB.
That is the SAD story, but since the created DVD does know about "this windows disk" that was really my problem.

He really won't be a friend any longer..
Thanks
Carver

**Compton** · 05-28-2017, 08:17 PM

ok I guess we can close the thread now?

***Britec*** · 05-29-2017, 10:43 AM

What is the date of the files in the Regback folder? if they are recent you can use them to restore.