On the General tab you may see it set for Selective Startup, and on the Boot tab you will see a reference to a Windows installation that is in "Recovery". "CmdLine"="" (This field should be Blank ) This is what the values needed to be changed to: Here is an example of what the registry values could look like Within HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup you will need to change the following values: Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setupģ. Within Windows, Click Start - Run, type 'regedit.exe' and press Enter.Ģ. Then you are taken to the Windows Logon screen where you can login normally.ġ. Look for a process called windeploy.exe and kill it (End Task) Type in taskmgr.exe and you will get the Windows Task Manager
While you see the message "Setup is preparing your computer for first use" you can press Shift F10 on the keyboard and you will see a command prompt. Also, I tried the restore to VMware VSphere 5 and VMware Workstation 7 and I had the same results.īelow are some steps that helped me resolve this. The "Restore Anywhere" option is a way of saying I am restoring to disimiliar hardware.
#Use bootrec windows 7#
After using Symantec System Recovery 2011 (aka Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery) to restore an image backup of a physical Windows 7 machine to a virtual machine using the "Restore Anywhere" option, I was left with a machine that was stuck on the message: " Setup is preparing your computer for first use"
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