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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'm having the same problem started 3hrs before and its just at 21% now. Well, I decided to reset my laptop cuz after changing motherboard all games were lagging.. so if anyone of you have faced this problem (motherboard issue) please do reply. I hope my games will work fine after resetting. And don't worry my laptop configuration is totally fine 8gb ram nvidia 755m gddr5 2gb graphics i7 4700 and 1tb HDD
It takes 1 minute per gb.
If you choose just delete my files, and you have used 76gb on your pc, it will take 76 minutes
If you choose fully clean the drive, and your pc total space is 900gb, it will take 900 minutes
I think I am going to set a new record...
256gb ssd - almost 48 hours stuck on 17%...
Way to go Microsoft!
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Hi,
The issue seems to be due to some third party program causing the issue. I would suggest you to perform clean boot. Clean boot will eliminate software conflicts that occur when you install a program or an update or when you run a program in Windows. You may also troubleshoot or determine what conflict is causing the problem by performing a clean boot.
How to perform a clean boot in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135
Note: Follow How to reset the computer to start as usual after troubleshooting with clean boot from article KB929135 to reset the computer to normal mode.
Hope this helps. Let us know if you have any other issues with Windows in future.
