Need Windows 10 help from the gurus

[Patrick]

I just had something very strange happen. My workstation reverted to a previous install point. I was installing some new hardware walked away and I think it did the automatic revert feature. The image looks to be a Feb 2016 install of Windows or just after that.

I keep all of my files on NAS storage so data loss is nothing aside from a few ISO images I keep locally (e.g. Ubuntu 16.04) but it would be nice if I did not have to re-do all of my settings/ applications.

Any thoughts/ ideas would be appreciated as I must be searching for the wrong terms via Google.

 

[William]

WOW that's very strange, not sure what to tell you on this one, never had that happen to me.

 

[Evan]

Oh :-O

Can't help with your problem but bit of a concern with those hosting VM's for home use on win10

I did not think of that possible issues with updates and restore points using C: drive (or whatever it's installed on)
Does it also use restore points for other local internal drives ?

 

[William]

The only thing I can think of is something happened with the new hardware install and it crashed and went to a restore point.

 

[Patrick]

The only thing I can think of is something happened with the new hardware install and it crashed and went to a restore point.

It was at least user error if anything. I think it started recovery because it did not fully boot twice (once I did). When I walked away just after to grab a water, and take a picture of some new drives, I came back and it had automatically booted to a restore point. Oddly enough, it showed a May 1 restore point but did not let me move forward to that restore point.

Oh well, good time to re-image Win 10 from scratch. Already started the process.

Most stuff is sitting on the FreeNAS box + Google/ Microsoft so it is very easy to get to. Re-install Win 10. Re-connect network drives. I think the main WAN stuff to grab is just Office (download from O365 subscription) and Adobe Creative Cloud items.

The 1TB SSDs are in RAID 1 but that does not do much for Windows deciding to implode itself. I could have restored from back-up but it is probably a good opportunity to clean everything out anyway.

 

[pricklypunter]

Prolly M$ or the NSA reverting your security settings so they have access again

On a more serious note, I got caught out with just this thing a couple of times early on with win7. I never really got to the bottom of what caused it and it wouldn't let me manually move forward to a later restore point either. I now disable the feature (turn off system protection) whenever I perform an install and just manually run system image whenever I make any significant changes that I want to keep

 

[Marsh]

Patrick , may be too late at this time.
Google "boot to vhd " , visualize your Windows OS in a vhd file, backing up your entire working Windows OS as easy as
copying "Win10.vhd" from source to detestation drive.

Paid the upfront time cost , (as much as you could and practical ) customize your Windows OS with Powershell script and / or DSC.
Check-in the configuration scripts in to source control. Deploy apps with Windows package management.
From this point forward, you could rebuild your desktop without too much manual configuration.

 

[Deslok]

Imaging with macrium home is free and can be scheduled I recommend it on desktops where it's easy to add an additional drive to copy the images to(acually i prefer it over raid1 for desktop use although it's not a bad addition) I've yet to see behavior like this out of windows 10 myself and i'm using it personally on two desktops and my primary laptop(in addition to a few other laptops in the building) Restore points aren't supposed to affect data(you shouldn't have lost your iso's) so I'm very curious.

 

[ecosse]

Didn't the windows event log provide any clues? Or something like last activity viewer?

 

[Jerry Renwick]

Sorry, I haven never met your problem, as I still use Windows 7.
I have been notified many times by my computer to upgrade to Windows 10, But I am not sure about it.