Windows 8 system restore woe

[bibblebub]

I did something to cause a problem for my mouse earlier this evening and a simple re-installation failed to resolve it so I thought that I would try doing my first system restore using Windows 8. Oh dear! After an hour and a half it was just sat there saying that it was finalising restoring files, hard disk being hammered, and so I decided to power down. Since then I have been unable to
repair or do a system restore using the Windows 8 disc and am currently restoring from a Windows 7 disc image that I made on Friday.

Was it unreasonable to have powered off after such a long time of nothing seeming to be happening (other than continuous disk activity)? Restoring in Windows 7 only ever took a fraction of that time. R

[rojash]

"Was it unreasonable to have powered off after such a long time of nothing seeming to be happening (other than continuous disk activity)?"

Yes

[bibblebub]

What is it doing that takes so long - 90 minutes and still in progress when I stopped it, compared to less than 10 for W7?

[ChuckFickens]

Don't know what it was doing.... but I would have left it overnight if necessary, or switch it off knowing that it would destroy the install and a reinstall was going to be needed.

[bibblebub]

i plead diminished responsibility due to tippling

[methyl]

If you ever get into this situtation again, remember to create a new System Restore Point before even considering going back to an earlier System Restore Point. Don't do this if you have a virus!

Personally I have never fixed anything by reverting to an earlier System Restore Point except reversing a virus long enough to salvage files before doing a cold build.

If you post incredibly vague statements like "I did something to cause a problem for my mouse" - that is not at all useful. Take the time to describe what you did, what you expected to happen, and what actually happened.

[bibblebub]

I know exactly what I did with the mouse so this question was not about that, it was about how long the system restore was taking. Do you have any information about differences in system restore between W7 and W8 that could explain why it was taking so long to complete?