Data hard drive recovery How to restore when the system restore fails?

System restore has been an important feature in windows to helps us to roll the system files, program files and registry information to their previous state. If you failed to restore the system, you can try the following ways.

Try to restore with other restore points

If you failed to restore your computer to one of its previous restore point, or the the restore point has not solved your problem, you can try other restore points.

Go to start menu, type System Restore, then press Enter to open the system restore window. In the opened system restore point, you may found an option of Choose a different restore point. You should check this option and click Next. Check the option of Show more restore points and click Next. Then you can see all the available restore point. You can choose the proper restore points to restore the system.

Boot your computer in safe mode

Sometimes, the system restore fails for the inference of antivirus software. The antivirus software running in the background may prevent you to use the system restore to replace the files. To by pass these background program, you can boot your computer in safe mode.

Reinstall system

If the system restore still does not work in safe mode, you may need to reinstall the Windows system. If you have no restore points created before the problem occurred, you cannot fix the problem. As you are unable to restore your system with system restore, you can only reinstall the system.

To reinstall the system, you should back up all the data on the system drive. Reinstall system will delete all the system files, programs, registry information from the hard drive. Reinstall will not affect your data on other partitions, so you only need to back up the data on system drive. There are several ways for you to reinstall system. You can use an installation disc, restore disc, or you can use the recovery partition you created.

How to restore files from hard drive?

System restore can only back up the system files, programs, registry, but not your personal file. It is used to help you to fix the system problems but not to help you to restore the data. So you’d better do not save files on the system drive. To reduce data loss, you should move the files to other partition, and form a good habit of backup. Once you have data loss, you should stop using the hard drive so that to reduce data overwritten, and take the data recovery software to get the data off the drive easily.