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I'm resetting a laptop and it's been sitting at "Resetting this PC: 40%" for about 2 hours now. Just wondering if that's normal. It went through 1 to 40 in under an hour. I'm just curious if there's any cause for alarm. The loading icon is still spinning, so there's that. I know that powering it down during this process would be a bad idea.
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Resetting?
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Monday posted...

I'm just curious if there's any cause for alarm.

I doubt there is.
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Sami1000 posted...

Resetting?

Restoring to factory defaults.

mustachedmystic posted...

Monday posted...

I'm just curious if there's any cause for alarm.

I doubt there is.

Yeah, I've been Googling around and people are saying that it could take up to 8 or 10 hours. That's nuts.
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Windows 10?

Windows isn't stable.
But people have reported it taking up to 36 hours.
I'd give it another 24 hours before you restart it then reset it but choose to erase all files.

Why are you reseting it?

Edit: if it's factory defaults maybe just reset it and remove all your files that seems to make things faster. I've had the same issues and wiping it completely (IE choose not to keep files) makes it take 20-30 minutes on an SSD. I imagine an hour at most on a HDD that's less than 1TB
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TheFireRises posted...

Windows 10?

Windows isn't stable.
But people have reported it taking up to 36 hours.
I'd give it another 24 hours before you restart it then reset it but choose to erase all files.

Why are you reseting it?

I'm giving it away due to buying a new one. And yeah, windows 10.
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Yeah, that can take a while. I guess slow 5k rpm hdd's can also make it longer.

I wouldn't worry yet
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Monday posted...

I'm giving it away due to buying a new one. And yeah, windows 10.

Do what I said in my edit - in fact you could just turn it off now and reset it most likely. But before you do that, what computer? Desktop or laptop?
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TheFireRises posted...

Monday posted...

I'm giving it away due to buying a new one. And yeah, windows 10.

Do what I said in my edit - in fact you could just turn it off now and reset it most likely. But before you do that, what computer? Desktop or laptop?

Heh, I powered it off then back on, and now it's running normally like the reset went through fine. Odd.

Edit: And it's a laptop. An Asus.
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Monday posted...

Heh, I powered it off then back on, and now it's running normally like the reset went through fine. Odd.

It's possible that it didn't delete the files.
The fastest way would be: press Window key/open start menu > PC Settings > Update & Security > Recovery > Reset this PC > Remove Everything

That usually takes less than an hour.
if you used that setting, then just do a quick manual look for any of your old files.

You can also just go to the start menu/press windows key, search for Programs and Features and ideally, it'll be stuff that has been installed far before this current date. The exception might be some Windows related stuff due to Windows Updates
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TheFireRises posted...

Monday posted...

Heh, I powered it off then back on, and now it's running normally like the reset went through fine. Odd.

It's possible that it didn't delete the files.
The fastest way would be: press Window key/open start menu > PC Settings > Update & Security > Recovery > Reset this PC > Remove Everything

That usually takes less than an hour.
if you used that setting, then just do a quick manual look for any of your old files.

You can also just go to the start menu/press windows key, search for Programs and Features and ideally, it'll be stuff that has been installed far before this current date. The exception might be some Windows related stuff due to Windows Updates

Yeah, just to be safe that's what I'm gonna do. Don't want any weird issues left over.
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Monday posted...

Yeah, just to be safe that's what I'm gonna do. Don't want any weird issues left over.

If it's got an SSD it should be done within 30 minutes. If it's a regular HDD, then an hour, at most.
Basically, by keeping your files what happens is that it takes a lot long since it's configuring everything to be factory set - while keeping your files.
But removing your files is faster as it's more or less "deletes files, installs Windows again". Which is a lot faster.

But yeah, the Windows reset thing is annoying - it tends to update stuff and yeah... that's not a major thing you should be worried about. Just go through documents, program files, etc to make sure it actually did reset
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