Windows 8 PC Reset. Taking toooo long.

Anonymous
2012-10-28T21:09:54+00:00

Now I understand this will take a long time but I did NOT plan for it to take this long. When I upgraded Windows 7 to Windows 8 the format and upgrade only took 15 minutes. I was having some pc issues and said Hey! How about I use this new reset feature and start over again. WORST MISTAKE EVER! I have no clue what this is doing but this is taking forever. So far this thing moves up 6% every hour. It's been 3 hours now and it's still on 16% Can you all tell me what is this thing doing or is this some sort of error? My hard-drive size is 1TB clean and around 900gb when a OS is installed.

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-10-28T23:16:15+00:00

    Anyone care to help?

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-10-28T23:26:32+00:00

    I'm in the same boat. I have a 120GB ssd that my OS is going on, and two other HDD. One 320GB that has some stuff on it and a 250 with nothing on it. After just upgrading the OS from 7 to 8 I decided to do a Windows 8 reset. Been going for 4.5 hours and only 24% complete. I have really fast hardware, so I don't see why this is taking so long. It seems to be progressing, but still. Going on 5 hours is a long time! and I still have 75% more to go.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-11-04T02:52:16+00:00

    Mine was really slow until 30% or so. It took about 5 or 5 1/2 hours. Then it spead up. Total reset took 6.5 hours. Just let it go, it sucks but it will do it's own thing and it will do it right.

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-11-20T04:47:31+00:00

    Doesn't look like you've asked any questions on this post. So sorry for your confusion. What is your question? Here is the answer I gave to this posts question on Nov. 3. 

    Mine was really slow until 30% or so. It took about 5 or 5 1/2 hours. Then it spead up. Total reset took 6.5 hours. Just let it go, it sucks but it will do it's own thing and it will do it right.

    Hope that answers whatever question you had. Err, both of them.

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  5. Anonymous
    2012-10-31T18:47:36+00:00

    Same thing with me. Going on hour 4 and am just at 34%.

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