w10 formatting issue?

[JacksonE]

ok guys i am reformatting my pc because im putting my new ryzen set up in fr tomorro and it hasnt had a fresh install in 4-5 years, done it from the windows 10 reinstall but it seems to be stuck on 20% for hours now, do i reboot my pc or wait for it overnight?

[paddy-stone]

17 minutes ago, JacksonE said:

ok guys i am reformatting my pc because im putting my new ryzen set up in fr tomorro and it hasnt had a fresh install in 4-5 years, done it from the windows 10 reinstall but it seems to be stuck on 20% for hours now, do i reboot my pc or wait for it overnight?

Why are you reformatting? no need, when you install windows tomorrow on the ryzen system, you just select the whole disk, or make changes to it there and then during setup disk. Only thing you want to be doing in prep, is grabbing any files off there you want to keep.

[Doramius]

Depending on the media, it "could" take a while, but most of the time, Win10 installs in about 20-30 minutes at the longest.  It's not uncommon for Win10 to instal in 10 minutes or less from a USB 3.0 drive in a supported USB 3.0 slot on the mainboard, and using a m.2 SSD.  I have seen a 30 minute install on an old SATA 80GB HDD using DVD media.   Personally, I'd kill the install and try again 

[JacksonE]

i want a complete fresh install like its a new pc  i was on intel before and the original hdd was from 5 years ago while i cloned it onto a ssd years ago

[JacksonE]

its not installing im formatting the old hard drives/ssd si i can have a fresh install for tomorro?

[DnFx91]

4 minutes ago, Doramius said:

Depending on the media, it "could" take a while, but most of the time, Win10 installs in about 20-30 minutes at the longest.  It's not uncommon for Win10 to instal in 10 minutes or less from a USB 3.0 drive in a supported USB 3.0 slot on the mainboard, and using a m.2 SSD.  I have seen a 30 minute install on an old SATA 80GB HDD using DVD media.   Personally, I'd kill the install and try again 

i had to install windows 10 once onto a little NUC type thing, it had an intel atom single core processor, one USB 2.0 port, and a 30GB MSATA ssd. Without any exaggeration, it took over 4 hours to complete

[JacksonE]

yaaah, think im goign to leave it overnight n such it can take quite along time  from what ive read n such