How Long Should System Restore Take Vista

Hi there, recently the System Restore in Windows Vista would take too long during the initialization stage shown in the image belowThe process in this initialization screen keeps going on indefinitely. Ebjers wrote.It is possible that a virus or other malware has infected your system and damaged the resotre data.Not likely, cause I remember doing a recent scan to my system with no reports of infection. However I will double check and let you know tomorrowAs far as the System File Checker command goes i gave the sfc a shot in the command prompt in the 'Run as adimistrator' mode since UAC is enabled, it reports that 'Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations'. So I guess its safe to assume that there is no corruption in the system files. Reviving the topic. I tried installing the recently released Service Pack 1. Unfortunately it had no effect.

1. What Happens If I Interrupt System Restore Windows 10

Problem still persist and I can't use system restore, this is quite a loss since its a very useful troubleshooting tool. I still don't know what caused it to stop working. Its been a while since it happened, that leaves me with no choice but to go for a format, but I will try few more researches before reinstalling windows maybe I am not out of luck just yet. In the mean time if anyone comes up with a suggestion please drop a comment, any hints or clues well be greatly appreciatedRegardsaanis3000. If the moderators doesn't not mind for the topic to extend a bit longer I would like to post the following update regarding my questionCouple of hours ago I did a clean reinstall of windows vista, and something interesting happened. Normally any OS related problem would go away on formatting surprisingly the exact problem persisted.

So I thought that perhaps it wasn't a system related issue after all and rather a specific partition for which system protection is enabled was causing the problem, after I tying to disable system protection for all partitions other than the windows partition the system restore worked as normal.Just in case I checked hard drives for problems with both windows chkdsk and Western Digital Data Lifeguard with non reported. Additional tests performed by other SMART utilities passed. So its safe to assume that the hard drives are healthy and in good condition. The problematic partitions are quite big in size.

I have two 7200RPM Western Digital Sata harddrives, 320GB and 160GB respectively. 320GB is divided into two partitions, 100GB for windows partition, 200GB for the data storage, and the 2nd harddrive is in single partition for additional data storage. Both data partitions are more or less 60% full.Perhaps when system protection is enabled for such large partitions it is normal for system restore to take much longer to restore? As far as I know system restore only restore system files not data, hence large data shouldn't not impact on the speed of system restore.

System restore does only do system files and programs and does not change documents or data files, however if the drive is set to be protected system restore still must scan it for changes and that may be why it takes a long time to start. Apologies for the extended delay I have been terribly busy with exams this week.

What Happens If I Interrupt System Restore Windows 10

Hello out there. I have been having problems for several days with our laptop / Windows Vista home edition. It blue screened on me two days ago, kept running scandisk when I tried to reboot, froze repeatedly, and would not allow one of the users on (me!).It would just freeze. I have been 'working' from my husband's user acct but cannot access mine.

After cleaning out the startup menu and removing stuff we weren't using, I tried a System Restore. I went back to the last point before the problem began.It has been sitting there for almost three hours 'preparing to restore your system', however the hard drive light is not illuminating. Any suggestions? I have not ever attempted a restore before.I think I saw listing on the restore point list that there had been a Windows update that same day or the day prior.

Could that be the problem? Prior to the blue screen, I had removed the usb plug for the extended keyboard we have installed. We do that fairlyfrequently when we move the laptop around.??There was a warning not to mess with the computer during the restore, so I don't know what to do. How long is long enough to wait?Appreciate any wisdom you have to offer.

Three hours is much longer than required to prepare to restore your system - it is frozen. It should only be a matter of minutes before it starts (a half hour means it's frozen again) - but the actual restore may take an hour or so (thoughprobably nowhere near that long). You'll need to power down with the power button. Reboot to the Recovery Disk or to the genuine Vista Installation Disk and try to run the System Restore from there.To boot to the CD you may need to change the BIOS to make the CD-drive first in the boot sequence. To do that, wait for the screen that tells you the F key to push to access the boot menu or boot setup. Push it quickly.

Make the changes, save your work,and exit. Put the CD in the drive and reboot. When prompted, push any key to boot from the CD.Here's the procedure:.Be sure to check the box to show more than 5 days of restore points. If the first attempt fails, then try an earlier point or two. NOTE: You will have to re-install any software and updates you installed between now and the restore point, but you can useWindows Update for the updates.If you don't have either disk, you can make a bootable Recovery Disk using along with burning software like:and, of course, a blank CD.I hope this helps.Good luck!Lorien - MCSE/MCSA/Network+/A+ - If this post helps to resolve your issue, please click the 'Mark as Answer' or 'Helpful' button at the top of this message. By marking a post as Answered, or Helpful you help others find the answer faster.