system restore is always initializing

Baz162 · Mar 24, 2011

Hello there I'm looking for some help with my Windows 7 system restore. I love restore when it works but since I got my pc I have never been able to get it working. Every time I run it all I ever get is

"please wait while your windows files and settings are being restored
system restore is initializing..."

I left it for 8 hours over night (even though I hate leaving my pc on over night) to see if it was just me being impatient but 8 hours later the message was still through same no change.

Any help any one can give me to will be very appreciated thank you

alfred01 · Mar 24, 2011

Hi Baz162 and Welcome to Seven Forums, the place where problems come to die. Need to ask, Baz, do you have any anti-virus software running and if you do, which one?

Baz162 · Mar 24, 2011

I have the curent Avast installed but this problem was happening when i had AVG before

alfred01 · Mar 24, 2011

Ok Baz, my opinion is that you are going to have to disable your anti-virus in order to run system restore. It solved the problem for me. Let me know how it works out.

Baz162 · Mar 24, 2011

Thanks for the advice i will give it a go and get back to you.

alfred01 · Mar 24, 2011

OKy dok.

Baz162 · Mar 24, 2011

ok i disabled my anti-virus and give it another go with no luck still got stuck on the system restore is initializing... i then tryed it in safe mode just to be on the safe side with no luck starting to think this pc dont like me

alfred01 · Mar 24, 2011

The only other thing I can think of Baz is to disable anti-virus and turn real-time protection off on your Windows Defender. If your using the same system restore point, perhaps use a different one as well. I hope this helps but if it doesn't, you could put up a post that the problem is not resolved and hopefully someone else with more experience will give you a different suggestion. We have a lot of very smart people here at SF and I'm sure someone has a better idea. Sorry this hasn't worked out yet, but keep up hope. Good Luck

marsmimar · Mar 24, 2011

Hello Baz. You may have damaged or corrupt system files. I'd suggest running System File Checker from an elevated command prompt (option two, this tutorial.)

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html

If SFC detects file problems, run it at least 3 times. Let us know if it works or not because there are other things to try.

Baz162 · Mar 26, 2011

ok i tryed the System File Checker with no luck but worth a try

marsmimar · Mar 26, 2011

Try doing another system restore and make note of the time you start and the time it fails. Then check the Event Viewer log (it might take about 15 minutes or so for the data to appear in the log) for any errors that appear between the start and fail times. Post the info here and perhaps we can help figure out what's happening.

If you'd rather not wait, and if you have a full install disk for your OS (an OEM recovery type disk from a manufacturer won't work nor will a set of disks created by you from a recovery partition) you could try a Repair Install. Personal data like photos and documents won't be affected. Personally, I'd wait to see what the Event Viewer log shows.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html

Baz162 · Mar 26, 2011

the problem there is it does not fail on its own i have to reset the pc no matter how long i leave it restoring and all the event log says is:

System restore ended unexpectedly because of power loss or a program error.

and as for a repair install i cant do that because the company i got my pc from did not send me a disk and have went bankrupt so i cant ask them for a disk.

Bare Foot Kid · Mar 26, 2011

Baz162 said:
and as for a repair install i cant do that because the company i got my pc from did not send me a disk and have went bankrupt so i cant ask them for a disk.

Do you have a friend with an exact version installation DVD or you could find a download, have a look at this tutorial at the link below; though it is against forum rules to post d'l links.

Windows 7 Universal Installation Disc - Create

ra1016 · Feb 12, 2012

I had this exact same problem and none of the solutions found online worked. What finally worked for me was this:

I had more than one hard drive with System Restore activated.
I turned off System Restore for all but my main drive (drive C, the one with Windows 7).
System Restore now works.

Initializing still seems to take a while (about 3 - 5 minutes) but now it eventually does perform the Restore action.

Hope this helps somebody.

kwilson7770 · Jul 28, 2012

No Luck

Turning off all of the System restores from all but the main Windows partition did not fix this problem for me. I have two partitions, a recovery and a Windows one. The recovery was never on to begin with. I did activate the recovery drive and then turned it off

zwitterelf · Mar 8, 2013

I ran system restore in safe mode, seemed to have worked that way.

pcproask · Apr 7, 2015

Recover Initializing perminantly

hi, my asus Eee seashell mini laptop was constatntly coming up with BOOTMGR is missing message and ctrl+alt+delete would just repeat the message, i managed to get system recovery up but it is constantly initializing when it does begin to restore x:windows\system32\imagex.exe gets to 2% then comes up with error gets to 3% and then takes me back to BOOTMGR is missing message, because it is a mini laptop it has no cd-drive, can somebody please help, no disk, no memory card.

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