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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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I also started a Windows ten reset and it has been close to 10 hours. I understand that this can take a very very long time . My concern is that it was been at 99% for the last 4 hours and my pic had 600g of data split across two drives. Is this last 1% supposed to take a while ?
I'm just learning about this crazy reset time.... Holy Cow! 6 - 9 hours seems to be the average? Thankfully I hit this on a client's PC resetting my Linux box takes 15 minutes and that includes drivers, and most of the software I use including an office suite and video codecs.
Are you sure you're not confusing refresh and reset? I did a refresh recently, all programs were deleted but my files were retained. Didn't take long at all. I did a reset before selling my laptop, took about 8 hours! Everything wiped.
taking too long mine is doing 6% a hour. i think the os is corrupted. i have set up problems also.
Just hang in there. Mine took 11 hours ... before I even saw 12% I left it overnight. Everything was done around 11 am ... the next morning
Some have spent 48 hours ... don't be alarmed.. it is normal but nail-biting; unfortunately.
Nothing will happen to your pc. Do not power off or try to restart. Leave it alone
.... stop starring at it .... LOL ... -:)
go about your business ... it will be OK .. it happened to all of us on this thread.
Worst case scenario ... 48 hours ... And hey, resetting was a good idea ... it gives you; technically, a brand new pc.
taking too long mine is doing 6% a hour. i think the os is corrupted. i have set up problems also.
