Windows 10: Finalizing File Restore

Hi there!

Here's what happened: My laptop hanged for a few minutes which I had to force shutdown. Turn it on again, booted properly, then after doing work, I shut it down properly. This morning, it gave me the Automatic Repair and Restart loop. Tried to do cmd, resetting PC didn't work. Luckily there's a restore point which happened few days back. I tried to restore it. The process is taking so long. ~3 hours in "Restoring files..." then it became "Finalizing file restore..." It's been going on that state for 4 hours now.

I do understand that I have my disk at least 75% full and it's a HDD so it will take that much time but should I be worried right now or just patiently wait until it finishes the "Finalizing file restore..." part?

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Restoring Windows 10 Image using Macrium Reflect


In addition to the above. Here's my suggestion in step by step.
I assume you have Macrium Installed in your current HD and already made a backup copy.

1. Connect your new HD via USB port and boot up.
2. Run Macrium, click on Restore tab then select the Backup Image that you made to restore
3. click on "select a different target disk" then select your new HD as destination
   
   
   
4. Proceed to restore then Shutdown and disconnect the old HD and replace with the new HD
5. Boot up with your new HD.

 

Deleted file restore software.

I cant remember if it recovers old files OR leaves new files on the computer even after you do the restore. I havent used it in a while.

 

Corrupt files when restored

Took me a while to answer, and follow the instructions.
Here are the results:
Restoring from the 2TB drive failed and the FAQ page on GetDataBack site explains this scenario (file name found but on valid data to restore on NTFS) quite well.
Recuva software also found the files by name but they weren't valid to restore. For the next part Recuva wasn't helpful, too.
I decided to try a different approach. I managed to find an old HDD (that I stopped using because it fell and "got" bad sectors) that had the photos. I used R-Studio program to skip those sectors (manually, they were too much for the program to ignore in sequential scan) and managed to restore all of them (I think).
Thanks for the help.
Hope it helps someone.