Windows 10 broken after system restore

hans gruber · 14 Mar 2019 at 11:09

I ran system restore to undo an app update. My PC said it failed. On boot I get a problem with startup and automatic repair couldn't fix it and get dumped into the recovery options menu. I've tried other restore points but they all fail even going back. I tried sfc from command prompt in the recovery menu but it didn't fix it.

Is there anything I can do to get it working again?

Haze · 14 Mar 2019 at 12:19

Reformat

hans gruber · 14 Mar 2019 at 12:34

Tbf I'm probably going to do that anyway even if I could get back in. I just want to check my desktop and downloads folder. Everything else is backed up in triplicate. I will see if I can navigate with command prompt and copy stuff to a USB. I don't think there is anything I need but I wouldn't mind one last look.

AthlonXP1800 · 14 Mar 2019 at 14:56

What app update you attempted to undo?

Open Powershell and type in each command try to get system restore working again:

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth

DISM /online /Cleanup-Image / ScanHealth

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

If still not work then go into safe mode and run system restore which worked for many people.

hans gruber · 14 Mar 2019 at 18:39

None of that works sadly. The error given with system restore failing is to do with spotify. So it seems spotify has killed my computer.

hans gruber · 15 Mar 2019 at 10:35

I reinstalled windows over my old copy which meant I could get my files. I then put a fresh copy on but after the 1809 update chrome stopped working, so I'm doing it again. I'll create a restore point after all updates which will hopefully work if chrome borks again. Annoyingly I ran sfc trying to fix chrome which found errors. Why would there be errors on a fresh install?