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
    2015-12-30T22:14:16+00:00

    Same Here. I have a Lenovo R7 series PC. When I got McAfee it didn't work, I couldn't Shred anything! Apparently my computer CAME with a virus! I couldn't delete it, so I just decided to reset it. When I did so it got stuck on 99% and has been stuck there for 6.7 hours or so. I just got it today. It still has 2 terrabytes still free. And has 12 gigs of RAM. Any tips?

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-12-31T07:14:57+00:00

    I got ahold of Microsoft and they advised me to just power the pc down holding the power button and turn it back on. Apparently sometimes there's a problem with the many times it restarts and that the final restart does not start on its own. After a power down and restart it was fixed. Maybe 3 days later though I also learned that my 2 HDDs were bad and on the verge of death. I have upgraded to SSDs and my laptop is back to new.

    im running 

    i7 2650 

    gtx 540m

    16g ram

    new 250ssd and 500 hdd

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-12-31T07:18:09+00:00

    This laptop I paid 2k for about 5 years ago and I'm surprised the hard rives lasted this long being taken from coast to coast and also being forgotten about in the trunk of my car in sub zero weather. I also dropped it and had to pay 700 to have the screen and a few other things fixed. If your pc is bad still have the HDDs checked it's only like 50$ at a shop to have them checked

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-01-13T22:46:05+00:00

    I resetting it yesterday it's been 24 hours and it's still on 64 percent

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-04-20T23:57:13+00:00

    I actually have windows 10 and my school tech reset the computer over an hour ago and its still on 8 %. Lol😩😩

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