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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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It's do the fact you have that much data on hard drive that it's taking so long. right out of the box mine crashed. It was an open box e bay purchase so no refund given. and not worth trouble so trying to fix it after 2 hrs in reset on 8GB of Memory and a 3.6 A6 processor and only windows on disk it.s at 20 percent. So 2 times 5. 10 hrs **** I will be back at work by the times it's done.
correct in my situation the same, til 40% took 4 hours than the rest was done in only 1 hour
next time reboot from youre recovery disc/usb its faster and do the same job ,only youre going to need around 1 hour to update youre computer
Mines is at 48% after 8hrs. I was told by the tech support representative that the whole process was going to take 1-4.hrs. This is a fairy new computer. Hardly used it , so I decided to give it away to a relative. But I wanted to reset it before giving it away to make sure all whatever personal files and info were completely deleted. I thought it would take less time since I never downloaded any files, music, photos ir programs to this PC.
This is ridiculous :-(
is that the reboot from usb/cd or from or straight from youre windows recovery image ?because from the second one it can take that long just let it run and let youre computer do its job,when you reboot from usb?cd it should not take longer then 45 min.only for your updates gonna take a while
