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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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A bit late for a response but i may aswell so others know what happens.
The time varies depending on the condition and how filled the harddrive is.
My hard drive was nearly full and the computer in bad shape it took an obscene amount of time for it to reset so just be patient on the resets
That's REFRESH. Not REINSTALL.
I think it all is reinstall. The reason I posted this was for discussion and because my recovery partition corrupted somehow and can't upgrade anymore.
I used this for discussion. Sorry.
Microsoft get BS and I and a lot of people know. The quality changed.
There's no way to help, too.
A little late to the party... I know. I just had to perform a reset on my laptop, and found the following information:
If you perform a reset with the "Just remove my files" option, it should do a quick format and install the OS, which is pretty quick (30-60 minutes)
If you perform a reset with the "Fully clean the drive" option, it does multiple write operations on the entire drive to securely erase it, which causes it to take a lot longer... hours.
Hope this helps.
