Automatic recovery for Windows 10. Windows System Restore

On a normal day I sit at the computer. Everything seems to be very good, there are no glitches. I browsed well-known sites, didn’t download any programs, in general, everything was as usual. Suddenly the laptop started making sounds as if it was rebooting. I felt that something was wrong, although the computer worked as before without any brakes. Here I think I'll try to reboot it...

This is where all the fun started

When I turned it on, it gave me a message, which you can see in the picture, that the computer was not started correctly. It says that you can reboot, perhaps this will solve the problem. I didn’t believe it enough that I still rebooted the computer, but there was no result.

My attempts to do something

Attempt 1. Well, I think this is not the first time with such stories. The first thing I did was try a system restore. It turned out that not a single restore point was created, so this method faded into the background.

Attempt 2. I decided to restore the system image. I followed all the steps, the whole process went through, but at the end it gave me some kind of error and the system could not be restored. OK.

Attempt 3. I went to the boot options and select “Restart”. There was an option to enter safe mode. And in Windows 10, in general, you cannot enter safe mode if you cannot boot the system without it. And there was no luck.

Attempt 4. I went to the “Return to previous build” tab. In general, I don’t know exactly why, but I didn’t have the opportunity to return the previous version of the system.

Attempt 5. I went to the “Restore the computer to its original state” menu. There is an option to return the computer to the same state as if you had just bought it, but your data (which is stored on drives other than the system one) will be preserved. Well, I think it’s okay, I’ll install the programs I need with a new one, the main thing is that my data is not damaged. As a result, this process took a very long time, but soon an error appeared that “Windows cannot be installed for some reason (I don’t remember).”

At this point I just wanted to smash my laptop. After all, there were no failures, but then, out of the blue, some kind of hemorrhoid appeared. I already realized that Windows 10 is full of surprises, but here it is in general.

So how can you save all your data?

If you find yourself in the same situation (and I’ve seen a lot of them on the Internet), then you will need a flash drive or an external hard drive, where you “drag” the information you need, another computer (I’ll explain why later, and another flash drive (at least for 8GB).

1. Extra options
2. Then again additional parameters
3. Command line
4. Write “notepad” in it
5. Then click "File"
6. "Open"

Insert a flash drive or external hard drive, find the information you need and copy it to an external device (copying can take a long time, during the transfer there will be no graphs or percentages, only an hourglass will be shown).

How to reinstall windows 10?

After saving all the necessary files, you need to download the Windows operating system itself, this can be done from the official website: https://www.microsoft.com/ru-ru/software-download/home (we copy the link ourselves). There are 32 or 64 bit systems to choose from. Which one to choose? If the computer is less weak, then 32, if the computer has good parameters, then 64.

Download and open the program, there select the second item (as in the picture). At this time, you need to insert a flash card; he will create a system image on it. The action will take a long time, so during this time you can figure out how to enter the BIOS. We return to the “broken” laptop or PC, turn it on and while the system is loading (usually when your brand logo is shown) press F2. And here we will find ourselves in the BIOS. Everyone has their own BIOS version, so I can’t explain it using the instructions. You will need to put the flash drive in first place when booting the system. In principle, this can be done even if this is the first time you’ve seen the BIOS.

After an image has been created on the flash drive on the second computer, we insert it into the PC that needs to be repaired. We reboot it, go to the BIOS (via F2). Experienced users will figure it out on their own, but if that’s not you, then just go to each section and look for the name of your flash card. You will need to put it in first place, here is an example in the picture, look for something similar in yours.

If you still can’t do it, you can send photos in the comments - I’ll help you right away. After you have managed to put the flash drive in first place, save the settings and the computer will reboot itself. To do this, look for “Safe”.

As soon as this kind of window appears (picture on the left), you will need to format the system disk. There on the right it says “system”. Click on this section, then on “Format”. Other sections (optional) can also be formatted if you do not have the necessary information there. If there is, don't touch it then. Then click next and the process will proceed without your participation.

20-40 minutes and the system will be completely installed. Now you will have a clean system and, of course, without drivers. You can find them on the official website of the developers. So write, for example, “Drivers for asus”, official sites are usually the first place in the search, select your model there and download the necessary drivers, mainly graphics, sound, network, for fn keys, touchpad.

Well, that's basically it.

So is it worth upgrading to windows 10?

I’ll say right away that before this I had Windows 7, over time a notification came out that Windows 10 would be released soon - reserve it. I left my email. The release date arrived - updated, no problems. I used it for a little over 2 months. During this time, compared to the seven, it works worse. Yes, she is prettier, prettier, maybe even more comfortable. But with prolonged use, it begins to “stupid” and “slow down” very harshly until you restart the system.

It has non-logical actions, for example: go to the program control panel to remove unused software. So, when you uninstall a program, the control panel immediately closes. For what? After all, maybe I want to delete several at once. And so you have to constantly re-login every time.

Plus, this “The computer is not started correctly” was not explained at all to me.

Question: Automatic recovery - the computer did not start correctly

My motherboard is p7p55d
Two hard drives, one with Windows on the other and everything else.
I opened notepad via the command line, as advised somewhere here, It seems like the Windows drive changed its letter.
It used to be on drive C, now it has become drive D

Answer: There is no more Windows section.
Hard two
One unhooked
Driver error persists
I downloaded firewood for the sata/raid mother
He installed them, the installer, thought and then nothing happened.
There is no transition to selecting installation paths

I've already installed Windows like this a hundred times
I don't understand what's wrong this time

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So, how do you install Windows?

Added after 3 hours 8 minutes
I solved all the problems using another bootable USB flash drive.

Question: Automatic recovery. The computer does not start correctly

Answer: 32xlevel, if the system capacity is the same, then it will do.

Question: I turn on the computer and it says the computer is not running correctly

Here is the control panel

Answer: Use the second option (it will take a long time to mess with the first) and download the Windows 8.1 (Single Language) 64 bit image from the link that persen27 gave. Write it to a FAT32 formatted flash drive.
In the current Windows, download and run the RWEverithing program and find out the key hardwired into the BIOS (Google will tell you how to work with the program) and write it down and remember it.
Next, install Windows 8.1 (Single Language) from a flash drive, using a public key to install your system, formatting the 445 GB partition and specifying it for installation.
After installing Windows, replace the key with the one that you recognized through RWEverithing and saved. The command will look like this, where is XXXXX... your key from the BIOS.

Windows Batch file

slmgr /ipk XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX

Question: The computer did not start correctly. [After uninstalling Avast / Or using Wise Care 365]

Things don't go any further.
I tried all recovery methods that are acceptable and available, namely:
Restore
Startup Recovery
Recovering from a restore point
Restoring the registry from the RegBack folder
Command line (tried everything I knew and learned about bcdedit / bootrec (the second one doesn't seem to be particularly needed))

That is, I tried to recreate the bcd, fix the bcd
Also formatted the fat32 sector, on which the EFI bootloader
Nothing really helped

I searched bing, yahoo, google, yandex - everywhere at the end they hammered in a bolt and reinstalled Windows. But here this is unacceptable. And it’s somehow unprofessional to reinstall the system because of a loading problem.

Laptop with UEFI

Please help, and soon :-)

Also, I used Wise Care 365 before rebooting. Maybe that's what it's all about. But this infection did not create any backup... If anyone knows how to roll back Wise Care changes, write too) The restore point did not help

I saw a person on the avast forum with the same problem - he uninstalled avast not in safe mode and now encountered a problem.

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bcdedit tells me that the bootloader is located in volume 2 (its label is winre, i.e. this same winrecovery, it boots from it every time -_-)
And the required fat32 partition is volume 3
I think we should try to somehow change 2 to 3.
I tried using diskpart, assigned a letter to the desired partition and tried to install the bootloader into it, but apparently it didn’t work

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I scoured a bunch of forums, everywhere these top tips for reinstalling Windows.
Basically, I don't know what exactly I did.
I once again reset my password using Lazersoft (since neither I nor the owner knew the password). Plus there were useful programs.
I tormented the bcd partition a bunch of times, then returned it back, tormented it again
Then I tried various parameters for sfc
Then suddenly I wanted to restore again from the restore point, but from the earliest available one. In general, as far as I remember from yesterday (the problem actually arose the day before yesterday), when I already tried to restore with this recovery tool, there were three. Well, I decided to restore again, hoping to restore some registry keys that Avast may have damaged. And I was surprised to discover that the recovery points had disappeared somewhere (precisely after my actions today with the bcd / sam file / sfc experiments). Okay, I think I'll try the Refresh PC tool for luck. And, lo and behold, this time it worked! And now I’m at 50% of the process and I’m sure that everything will now work as it should.

I haven't found a more elegant method yet.

When (and if) I remember and model the exact sequence of actions to solve the problem, I will definitely post it here. :-)

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PS:
The holiday is cancelled, the problem is still relevant
At about 60%, the product decided that it had failed.

Answer:

Message from DeerDoor

Okay, I think I'll try the Refresh PC tool for luck. And lo and behold, this time it worked.

Question: The computer does not start correctly

Answer:

Message from KDME56

First check the operation of the computer with another disk

Message from Unbear

I tried to install the driver pack using driverpack solution

Never use it, only official drivers.
Good thing, reinstall the operating system.
If the problem persists (freezing), then bring the laptop under warranty.

Question: After installing Windows 10 on a new PC, when loading the OS, a message appears: “The computer is not starting correctly”

I purchased a new PC and also decided to use Windows 10 for the first time. So we have:
- New computer, no optical drive;
- 8GB flash drive (installation, with Windows 10);
- 16GB flash drive (image of drivers from the motherboard).

Since I purchased the hardware without an optical drive, and immediately after installing Windows 10, the computer did not see the network adapters, I had to write an image of the motherboard drivers onto a 16GB flash drive. After installing Windows from a flash drive (the one with 8GB), it works fine. The PC reboots without problems. After installing the drivers on the motherboard from a flash drive (the one with 16GB), the computer reboots in normal mode. But as soon as I try to install other programs or additional drivers from the manufacturer’s website, the computer stops booting normally, a message pops up when loading the OS: “The computer is not running correctly,” thereby forcing me to reinstall Windows 10 again. This situation has been repeated three times already, and I don’t know what caused this reaction. In all cases, Kaspersky Total Security was already installed. The second time, the computer completely froze while installing a driver for the chip set, downloaded from the motherboard manufacturer’s website (ASUS Z170 Pro Gaming). After rebooting the OS would not turn on. The third and last time, the situation repeated itself after installing drivers on the video card (GeForce GTX960 4GB Gigabyte). The installer asked to reboot and the OS again treacherously did not start.

Now I installed Windows 10 for the 4th time. I installed the drivers on the motherboard from a flash drive. I tried rebooting the system - everything is fine. I’m even afraid to install Kaspersky or update drivers for the same video card.

Can you tell me what the problem might be?

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I found this video:

Do you think it's worth deleting the file? oem-drv64.sys as a solution to the problem?

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Any opinions guys?

Answer:

Message from All

Did you connect correctly?
Have you tried reconnecting?
Did you install the drivers from the motherboard website, are there 3 of them? That's what they don't write on the website.

I connected it correctly, as evidenced by the fact that in the settings when checking, the speakers play (all except the subwoofer), but when you turn on the music, only the two front ones work. I tried all the drivers from the motherboard manufacturer's website. I think you need to look for drivers on the Realtek website, but I'm not sure.

Question: The computer does not start correctly Stops responding to the keyboard

Answer: A problem of this nature arose, I tried to turn on the computer (it was in sleep mode) and when loading it froze and spontaneously rebooted, after it started up again, something like this appeared.
I tried to restore the system using Windows recovery tools, but an error came up that my file system was damaged and it suggested checking my hard drive for errors.
Tell me what could be the problem?

Although the Windows 10 operating system is constantly being improved and polished, it still contains more errors than in previous versions. For example, a user may encounter a problem when loading the operating system: “Preparing Automatic Repair” appears on the boot screen, but no repair occurs and Windows 10 does not start. What to do in this case, read within the framework of this article.

About the error

Preparing Automatic Repair occurs when for some reason Windows 10 is damaged. Essentially, the "preparation" feature is supposed to restore damaged files from saved restore points or Windows installation files on a connected external storage device. But in the absence of such, the window simply freezes and after a while, a reboot occurs. And the cycle repeats itself, turning into a closed loop. Break the loop by turning off the power for a while and read the instructions for fixing it.

How to fix?

There are several effective tips for eliminating this problem.

Enabling XD-bit in BIOS

As long as the XD-bit feature (also known as No-Execute Memory Protect) is disabled in the BIOS (UEFI) settings, the user is faced with the Preparing Automatic Repair loop.

Interesting to know! The No-Execute Memory Protect function provides additional protection against hacker attacks, viruses and similar threats at the hardware level (hardware support for prohibiting the execution of program code from the data area). For the first time, such a function was acquired in processors: AMD Athlon 64, Sempron based on them, Intel Pentium 4 of the latest modification and Celeron based on them.

Increasing the space of the “System Reserved” section

The error may occur due to the “System Reserved” partition having less space than it should have (at least 250 MB is needed). To increase the partition space, use the boot utility MiniTool Partition Wizard. You may need a different computer or try going into safe mode:

1. Download the utility (ISO file).
2. Mount it on a virtual disk (RMB on the file → open with → Explorer).
   
3. Connect a formatted FAT32 flash drive, open the virtual disk and drag files to the flash drive to write.
   
4. Also, to write the utility to a flash drive from an image, you can use any convenient program, for example UltraISO.
   
5. Restart your computer and boot from the flash drive (the article “how to change the BIOS boot priority?” will help with this).
6. The open program will allow you to work with hard drives.
   Right-click on the system drive “C:” and click “Shrink”. Mark the 250 MB area. This will create 250 MB of unallocated area.
7. Move the System Reserved partition next to the unallocated space. Then right-click on System Reserved and perform the Extend function (Combining an indivisible area with a System Reserved volume).
8. Restart your computer and check if Windows is working.

System Restore

You can restore Windows 10 using a boot disk or flash drive with a Windows distribution:

Reinstalling Windows

If none of the tips described above helped you start Windows, reinstall it using

In automatic mode, it usually starts after an incorrect shutdown or exposure to viruses, which causes critical errors. However, quite often you can observe a situation when the message “Preparing automatic recovery” of Windows 10 appears on the screen, and after a reboot, instead of starting the system, only a black screen is visible, or the recovery simply goes in a loop (the same window is displayed at each restart).

The sad thing is that no matter how hard you try, it may be impossible to complete this process. However, if the system itself, not to mention the backup copies, has not been damaged to the most extreme extent, when nothing except re-installation helps, several methods for eliminating this situation can still be proposed.

Preparing automatic recovery for Windows 10: black screen and reasons for the process to loop.

Be that as it may, despite all the statements of the developers that the new system is almost the most stable, alas, it also contains many errors that are constantly being corrected. And system failures are not always eliminated by a regular rollback.

If we talk about the possible reasons for this behavior in Windows 10, it is quite difficult to say for sure what exactly is causing such a failure. However, with a certain degree of probability the following can be distinguished:

• damage to backups;
• lack of system files;
• lack of space to save checkpoints with images;
• incorrect settings of the primary BIOS/UEFI system;
• problems with hard drive and RAM.

Preparing automatic recovery for Windows 10: what to do first?

First, let's look at the standard scheme of actions. If, after a notification appears that automatic recovery of Windows 10 is being prepared, nothing happens after the restart, you can try to use safe mode to start.

If the user has activated the assignment of the F8 key to call the start menu, the standard option is to select safe mode with loading network drivers. If the use of this key is not provided, which is most often the case, it is quite possible that at the boot stage a window will appear with a choice of either booting the system or diagnostic tools (if there are Anniversary and Creators upgrades.

If the system somehow boots, you can try to rollback manually:

1. To do this, you should not use the standard “Recovery Center”; it is better to use the command console, in which you enter the line rstrui.exe.
2. In the rollback window, you must select the point that preceded the occurrence of such a situation. Please note that it will not be possible to stop this process, nor will it be possible to undo changes made during the rollback process.

Sometimes, if the network drivers are loaded and there is an active Internet connection, you can try to perform an online repair using the DISM tool. It may very well be that such a solution will be much more effective.

Using installation media

If a message appears on the screen again stating that an automatic recovery is being prepared and this process is going in cycles, to start you need to use the installation disk or USB drive, having previously set it first in the list of boot devices in the BIOS.

• In the initial installation prompt window, you must select the system restore hyperlink in the lower left corner.
• Go to the diagnostics section, then apply a rollback.

But you should not use startup recovery, since in most cases you will receive a message stating that the computer could not be restored to its original state.

After selecting normal recovery, the standard rollback procedure starts. It is quite possible that this method will produce results.

Expansion of reserved space

Another point when the Windows 10 “Preparing automatic recovery” screen appears, but then the system does not show any signs of life, is due to the fact that you need to increase the disk space allocated for saving backup copies. Again, this only applies to situations where Windows can be booted in Safe Mode.

In this case, the best option would be to use a small and fairly simple Partition Wizard program from MiniTool or a similar development with a built-in bootloader, which is much preferable for cases when the system does not start at all. In it you just need to increase the required space to at least 250 MB (it is better to set a slightly higher value), and then try to boot the system in normal mode.

BIOS/UEFI Settings

Finally, the loopiness of the “Preparing automatic recovery” process in Windows 10 may be associated with the settings of the primary system, which involve deactivating the system of protection against hacker attacks at the hardware level (prohibiting the execution of executable codes). The loop appears for this reason.

Thus, to correct the situation, you need to:

1. When you turn on your computer or laptop, enter the above parameters.
2. Find a line like No-Execute Memory Protect or XD-bit and set it to Enabled.
3. After this, you need to save the changes (F10) and restart the computer device.

Hard drives and RAM

If the problem is in the computer hardware, it may well be that first you should check the disk by booting from removable media using the command line, in which the command chkdsk /x/f/r is written, and at the same time use a check of the main system components (sfc /scannow).

If it is possible to make a safe start, the Victoria (for hard drive) and Memtest+ (for RAM) utilities are perfect for checking. In some cases, if the hard drive has begun to, as they say, “crumble,” as stated, a magnetization reversal program can provide invaluable assistance. It is difficult to say how effective this application is, but judging by the reviews, some hard drives can sometimes be restored in this way.

Conclusion

As you can already see, it is sometimes possible to remove the constant cyclical appearance of a message indicating that automatic recovery of Windows 10 is being prepared. True, in some cases you shouldn’t really count on system tools. But if none of the above helps at all, the system will have to be reinstalled (and in some cases even the hardware changed).

In general, based on purely practical considerations, the first thing to do is to try to boot with a safe start and perform further actions in a somewhat working system. But booting with network drivers is mandatory.

In the event that this option turns out to be completely unworkable, you will have to boot from removable media and try to restore it in this way.

Run automatic recovery

It's very easy to run automatic recovery from a recovery disk. After booting the system from disk, go to Diagnostics | Advanced options" (Troubleshoot | Advanced options). A screen will open with a list of additional options (Figure A), including automatic recovery.

Figure A: The Advanced Options screen presents four Windows recovery tools.

If you select automatic recovery, the screen shown in Fig. 1 will appear. B.

Figure B: Automatic Repair is the first thing you should try if Windows 8 won't start.

When Automatic Repair starts, it immediately begins searching for errors (Figure C).

Figure C The first step of the automatic repair tool is to look for errors.

During the diagnostic process, the utility scans the system, analyzing settings, configuration parameters and system files, looking for errors and damage. The following problems are looked for:

Missing/damaged/incompatible drivers;
missing/damaged system files;
missing/damaged bootloader settings;
corrupted registry settings;
damaged disk metadata (master boot record, partition table, boot sector);
Incorrectly installed updates.

If any of the listed problems are detected, the utility tries to automatically fix them (Figure D).

Figure D: When Automatic Repair detects problems, it tries to fix them.

If the utility can fix errors, it will do so on its own and then reboot the system into a normal working environment.

Serious problems

If the automatic repair tool is unable to resolve the problem, the screen shown in Figure 1 will appear. E. In this case, the utility creates a log where it records detailed information and prompts you to return to the advanced options menu, where you can select another diagnostic and recovery tool.

Figure E If the Automatic Repair tool fails to resolve the problem, this screen appears.

Before using other utilities, you should read the log. The recovery disk has a Notepad that you can use to view. To do this, remember the path to the log file and its name. On the Advanced Options screen, select Command Prompt.

In the Command Prompt window, enter the drive letter where the log file is stored (in my case it is "D"). Then use the CD command to navigate to the folder containing the file. After that, enter the name of the Notepad executable file and the name of the log file.

In my example, the command set looks like this (Figure F).

D: cd \Windows\System32\LogFiles\Srt notepad.exe SrtTrail.txt

Figure F From the command line, you can launch Notepad to view the log file.

In Notepad, you can view the contents of the file “SrtTrail.txt” (Fig. G). At the end of the log you will probably find information about some failed test, which will be useful for further diagnostics.

Figure G. The information in the SrtTrail log may be useful for further diagnostics.

If the recovery disk was created on a flash drive, you can save the Notepad file directly to it, connect the flash drive to another computer, and print the log so that the information you need is at hand. Then don't forget to return the recovery disk back to the problem computer.

If the recovery disc was created on optical media, the file cannot be printed, so you will have to manually record the useful information.

Looped automatic recovery

Recently, a friend of mine was faced with the fact that his laptop running Windows 8 was stuck on automatic recovery: the system was restored, rebooted, started recovery again, and so on in a circle. Having started the laptop from a USB recovery drive, we decided to try several BootRec commands in the command line, which at one time helped us fix a seriously damaged Windows 7.

In our case, using BootRec in combination with ChkDsk worked. I haven't seen any other Windows 8 computers that suffer from similar problems, so I can't say how reliable this method is. However, I have heard that other users were able to solve their problems with it. So you might want to give it a try before jumping into other recovery tools.

In the Command Prompt window, run the following commands one after another:

Bootrec /FixMbr bootrec /FixBoot bootrec /RebuildBcd chkdsk /r
Switch /FixMbr writes a new master boot record (MBR) to the system partition, /FixBoot– a new boot sector, and /RebuildBcd scans all drives for Windows installations and offers to add them to the Boot Configuration Data (BCD). Team ChkDsk with switch /r searches for bad sectors on the disk and recovers data that it can read.

After ChkDsk completes, remove the recovery drive and restart your computer.

What do you think?

Have you ever used the automatic system restore feature in