Windows reset issues

[Luna Strebler]

Hi so I decided to hard reset my PC today to get rid of excess files and it won’t give me a progress bar or loading circle and was curious if I should try turning off my PC as I know it may not be recommended but it’s been like this for almost an hour now and I’m starting to feel like I should.

[Fasauceome]

4 minutes ago, Alex Strebler said:

it’s been like this for almost an hour now

is windows on an SSD or hard dive?

[Luna Strebler]

4 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

is windows on an SSD or hard dive?

NVMe SSD

[Fasauceome]

2 minutes ago, Alex Strebler said:

NVMe SSD

windows should have certainly reset in less than an hour so it is time to try a hard reset. 

 

If you need to force another windows erase procedure, simply interrupt the windows bootup 3 times in a row and it'll give you the emergency menu, from there you can reset windows again.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

I've never recommended Resetting your PC. It honestly takes much longer than just doing a format and reinstalling. And you're pretty much going to be left at the same state with Resetting anyways so don't see the value proposition for it other than the even more simpler UI.  

[Luna Strebler]

4 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

windows should have certainly reset in less than an hour so it is time to try a hard reset. 

 

If you need to force another windows erase procedure, simply interrupt the windows bootup 3 times in a row and it'll give you the emergency menu, from there you can reset windows again.

Oh I didn’t realize that I forgot to say it was a hard reset.

[Fasauceome]

4 minutes ago, Alex Strebler said:

Oh I didn’t realize that I forgot to say it was a hard reset.

hard reset as in you hold the power button to turn the PC off?

 

it does get a bit confusing, the term "reset" is to turn the PC off and on again and also to revert windows to default.

[cr8tor]

10 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

windows should have certainly reset in less than an hour so it is time to try a hard reset. 

 

If you need to force another windows erase procedure, simply interrupt the windows bootup 3 times in a row and it'll give you the emergency menu, from there you can reset windows again.

I agree with all of this.

Also, when you start the installation again, remove any other peripherals that might be plugged in for the time.  Especially storage devices and printers.

Plug them in and install them after the OS is working.

Small chance something interrupted the OS install and could do so again.

 

[Luna Strebler]

5 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

hard reset as in you hold the power button to turn the PC off?

 

it does get a bit confusing, the term "reset" is to turn the PC off and on again and also to revert windows to default.

Reset as in to remove all files off the PC

[Fasauceome]

Just now, Alex Strebler said:

Reset as in to remove all files off the PC

yep I think it's time to shut down the PC and restart it to try again

[Luna Strebler]

4 minutes ago, cr8tor said:

I agree with all of this.

Also, when you start the installation again, remove any other peripherals that might be plugged in for the time.  Especially storage devices and printers.

Plug them in and install them after the OS is working.

Small chance something interrupted the OS install and could do so again.

 

Alright well I saw someone else mention that I could just reformat the drives so I turned it off and back on and just did that instead as it was 2 specific drives that I wanted cleaned so they’re wiped now

[Luna Strebler]

17 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

I've never recommended Resetting your PC. It honestly takes much longer than just doing a format and reinstalling. And you're pretty much going to be left at the same state with Resetting anyways so don't see the value proposition for it other than the even more simpler UI.  

Alright I never heard of doing that before so I just tried and now I formatted both drives I wanted cleaned so thanks for making me realize I could do that I always thought that you had to reset to completely wipe the drives

[Luna Strebler]

1 minute ago, Fasauceome said:

yep I think it's time to shut down the PC and restart it to try again

I just saw someone else’s reply about reformatting the drives and tried that so my drives are wiped now but thanks for helping!

[Luna Strebler]

8 minutes ago, Alex Strebler said:

Alright I never heard of doing that before so I just tried and now I formatted both drives I wanted cleaned so thanks for making me realize I could do that I always thought that you had to reset to completely wipe the drives

Though i just thought is it safe to do on the C drive? I don’t want to risk it if it can potentially screw up my Windows

[cr8tor]

8 minutes ago, Alex Strebler said:

I never heard of doing that before

I think the person was referring to a windows option to "reset the os" which is where windows tries to clean its self up and restore its self to defaults, and it usually screws everything up.

That reset is a bad idea. 

What you are doing where you are wiping the drives, is the correct way to do it.

 

While you are doing this kind of OS reinstall, you should disconnect peripherals (except the keyboard and mouse) so they dont cause issues during the install.

Then plug them back in after windows is up and running.

[CommanderAlex]

1 minute ago, Alex Strebler said:

Though i just thought is it safe to do on the C drive? I don’t want to risk it if it can potentially screw up my Windows

You quoted yourself. 

I've reset my C drive many times after screwups that I did and one strange one after a BIOS update( PC would boot up at 00:00 every morning...tried disabling wake up timers and a reset fixed my problem). The only issues I had that I don't know if there is a solution to other drives that have other files on them not including Windows like game drives would have an issue, so I just reformat them. 

[Luna Strebler]

51 minutes ago, CommanderAlex said:

You quoted yourself. 

I've reset my C drive many times after screwups that I did and one strange one after a BIOS update( PC would boot up at 00:00 every morning...tried disabling wake up timers and a reset fixed my problem). The only issues I had that I don't know if there is a solution to other drives that have other files on them not including Windows like game drives would have an issue, so I just reformat them. 

Alright thanks!