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
    2013-03-06T08:16:16+00:00

    Mine took 7 hours to reset!

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-02-14T21:50:38+00:00

    i m also having same problem ......is that reset function really helps i hav genuin win 8 default with my new asus vivo touch screen ......i dnt hav any dvd of win 8 or nt any key ............its 3 hrs bt still in 12% god help mi

    It's ok the reset takes a **** of a long time unfortunately we all have to wait mine should be done by now but from what I can tell it goes thru various steps and % that takes forever before I went to sleep around 2am I was at 47% thinking by 10ish it should be complete ....... That was a big no I checked an it was at 37% so I figure it either scans first deletes resets and then checks for errors which would explain the wait but I do know even on 7 a full reset would only take 45 min max

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-02-14T10:51:13+00:00

    i m also having same problem ......is that reset function really helps i hav genuin win 8 default with my new asus vivo touch screen ......i dnt hav any dvd of win 8 or nt any key ............its 3 hrs bt still in 12%

    god help mi

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-01-30T16:23:17+00:00

    I bought a brand new laptop yesterday. First, the first installation of Windows 8 did not work; on reinstalling I had to add a new user name. Finally after a few restarts the password that worked a few times, all of a sudden was not accepted anymore. Contacted the help desk of the laptop brand and was told that the only way (if I didn't have a reset password disk - make sure you create one as soon as you log on to windows successfully) was to reset the machine and that it would take aproximately 45 minutes. It started about 4 hours ago and it's now on 28%!!

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  5. Anonymous
    2013-01-28T18:41:57+00:00

    Mine was really slow until 30% or so. It took about 5 or 5 1/2 hours. Then it spead up. Total reset took 6.5 hours. Just let it go, it sucks but it will do it's own thing and it will do it right.

    tnx lol your post makes me feel better. i thought there was something wrong with my pc its been 4 hours and 32%. this is crazy though

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