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Cheap tablet stuck at windows setup start?!?

When I turn it on it goes through the normal bios thing and then goes to a "Just a moment..." screen with the spinning windows 10 dots. IT's really annoying and I currently do not have a usb OTG adapter for a usb flashdrive nor do I have a keyboard to access the bios. Any way to solve this? 

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So, it's updating windows to the latest update?
Even on a desktop SSD, that update can take over half an hour.
So on your cheap tablet, which is most assuredly a lot slower, give it a couple hours.

 

You can generally enter the bios by holding Volume Down (or was it up?) during start up.

In the worse case scenario, tablets generally have a button press combination that will restore it to factory default. (such as holding UP/Down+Power button for a couple seconds on start up)

 

With a Windows tablet, I really suggest getting a powered USB hub and a MicroUSB OTG charging cable (which has both the full size USB port and the charging cable on it). That way you will be able to recover/reinstall windows if anything ever goes wrong, since the touchscreen will not work during a windows install, you will need keyboard/mouse/usb flash drive containing windows ISO.(hence why you need the hub)

I sure needed that when I did a clean install of Windows 10 on my Dell Venue 8 Pro tablet. (also needed to disable Secure Boot in the bios)

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