Windows 10: Failed System Restore - Failed Automatic Repair

Greetings everyone. I attempted to Restore (Recover/Reset - whatever it's called now) my 11 month old Lenovo laptop to a previous date. After about 15 minutes it displayed a message saying the process failed and would restart. It never restarted, just shut down. I manually restarted and it went into Automatic Repair mode which also failed. It displays two options, Restart or Advanced options. Selecting Advanced options results in several other options, one of which is Troubleshoot. Selecting Troubleshoot results in several other options, some of which require a password. I don't remember ever setting a system password, but I did set a PIN. I've tried various passwords and my PIN, but nothing is working. I have a bad feeling about this. Windows 10 was pre-installed, no disc.Your thoughts?

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Failed System Restore - Failed Automatic Repair

Hi,

- could I first ask what sort of problems led you to do that?

System Restore point? I've never seen a failed System Restore crash a system, so that tends to suggest there's a more basic underlying problem.

Tends to suggest your disk could now be in some indeterminate state where the process failed part way through. Unclear.

You would have had a password, then set a PIN. Setting a PIN is an option- a frill if you like. The password is more basic, and whilst in later builds MS allows a PIN to be used to log in to Safe Mode, it's still required in other situations. A common mistake is to forget the password.

Is your login linked to an MS account? If so, the password should be the same.

Given it's 11 months old, let's hope the hardware is ok, and the PC is presumably within warranty.

The first thing to do given you started this because you must have been having some problem is to check your disk.

If that has failed, there's no point in attempting to fix Windows, and you need to consider warranty replacement.

You have 2 options.
a. Create a live boot disk with utilities on it, using another PC, boot this PC from that and run tests,
E.g. Google Kyhi's or Bob Omb's disk, download the iso, and correctly create a bootable flash drive from that.

b. Remove your system disk from your PC, put it in a caddy and check it on another PC.

Suitable programs (but not equivalent) are:
HD Tune (old free version may not read SMART params for some SSDs)
Crystal Diskinfo (free)
Hard Disk Sentinel (trial) (includes SSDs).

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Have you been using disk imaging routinely as is so very very often recommended here?

What is your Windows build as best you know? (When you boot your PC from a live boot disk you can also determine that)

Your specs say Lenovo G550, but you then say it's 11 months old.
Please give the details of the PC in question.

 

Failed to complete System Restore

Hello Passegua,

The error code 0x80070005 may indicate a few things that are causing System Restore Failure. It could be corrupted system files, conflict with other programs such as Anti-virus protection, and etc. As a first troubleshooting step, we suggest
that you perform System restore in Safe Mode. Kindly refer to this link for more information and steps.

Another step that I can suggest is Clean Boot, if the above step fails.

Let us know the outcome.

 

Windows 8 Acer will not factory restart or refresh. Fails automatic repair.

I have a Windows 8 Acer, I was trying to factory reset it. It failed the reset and also failed the automatic repair. It says Log File: C:\system32\logfiles\srt\SrtTrail.txt after failing. I tried the following in command prompt as I've seen it suggested
and it didn't solve anything.

• bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd
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