# \[Filebeat 7.12\] \[Windows\] Failed to open store 'filebeat' after incorrect Windows reboot
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-7-12-windows-failed-to-open-store-filebeat-after-incorrect-windows-reboot/270145
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** windows, filebeat
**Created:** [April 14, 2021, 8:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-7-12-windows-failed-to-open-store-filebeat-after-incorrect-windows-reboot/270145 "2021-04-14T20:21:57Z")
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### Author:  [@akelio](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/akelio)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2021, 8:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-7-12-windows-failed-to-open-store-filebeat-after-incorrect-windows-reboot/270145/1 "2021-04-14T20:21:57Z")
Hi!
Filebeat 7.12 (x86) on Windows machine cannot start after incorrect OS reboot (possibly after power supply lost).
Log shows that registry data files are corrupted. The only way I found to manually start filebeat is deleting registry data dir.
```auto
2021-04-08T18:50:04.462+0300 INFO instance/beat.go:468 filebeat start running.
2021-04-08T18:50:04.472+0300 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:117 Starting metrics logging every 30s
2021-04-08T18:50:05.125+0300 ERROR beater/filebeat.go:351 Could not init registrar: failed to open store 'filebeat': corrupted data file: invalid character 'v' after object key
2021-04-08T18:50:05.191+0300 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:152 Total non-zero metrics {"monitoring": {"metrics": {"beat":{"cpu":{"system":{"ticks":280,"time":{"ms":280}},"total":{"ticks":763,"time":{"ms":763},"value":763},"user":{"ticks":483,"time":{"ms":483}}},"handles":{"open":128},"info":{"ephemeral_id":"e45fc94e-c59b-44f9-b521-df368d79062a","uptime":{"ms":8311}},"memstats":{"gc_next":14358272,"memory_alloc":12650408,"memory_sys":24988668,"memory_total":42061160,"rss":42430464},"runtime":{"goroutines":14}},"filebeat":{"harvester":{"open_files":0,"running":0}},"libbeat":{"config":{"module":{"running":0}},"output":{"events":{"active":0},"type":"elasticsearch"},"pipeline":{"clients":0,"events":{"active":0}}},"registrar":{"states":{"current":0}},"system":{"cpu":{"cores":2}}}}}
2021-04-08T18:50:05.192+0300 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:153 Uptime: 8.3344767s
2021-04-08T18:50:05.192+0300 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:130 Stopping metrics logging.
2021-04-08T18:50:05.258+0300 INFO instance/beat.go:474 filebeat stopped.
2021-04-08T18:50:05.273+0300 ERROR instance/beat.go:971 Exiting: failed to open store 'filebeat': corrupted data file: invalid character 'v' after object key
```
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### Author:  [@mtojek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mtojek)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2021, 8:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-7-12-windows-failed-to-open-store-filebeat-after-incorrect-windows-reboot/270145/2 "2021-04-15T08:19:27Z")
That's interesting. Would you mind opening a GH issue for this problem?
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### Author:  [@akelio](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/akelio)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2021, 12:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-7-12-windows-failed-to-open-store-filebeat-after-incorrect-windows-reboot/270145/4 "2021-04-19T12:01:32Z")
Done! [[Filebeat 7.12] [Windows] "Failed to open store 'filebeat': corrupted data file" after incorrect Windows reboot · Issue #25135 · elastic/beats · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/25135)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2021, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-7-12-windows-failed-to-open-store-filebeat-after-incorrect-windows-reboot/270145/5 "2021-05-17T14:02:07Z")
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