How Long Does It Take to Refresh Windows 8
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Could someone shed light on this one? I might reconsider bringing my laptop to a shop now.
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Actually, now that I think about it, worst case would be if the manufacturer decided to use its own restore software instead of the one built into Windows. I've seen a couple manufacturers do that. Once the system is unbootable on those, you can't restore it. But nobody should be doing that anymore since Windows 8/10.
I would leave it overnight. I've seen a reset take over 4 hours with a SSD. I can easily imagine it taking more than 5 hours with a HDD. And no HDD activity (nor CPU activity) seems to be a theme with Microsoft. Seen it happen often with updates and restores. Dunno what they're doing, but after enough time it seems to get over the hump and continues about half the time.
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Ressetting pc with failed hdd was not a very good idea.
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Actually, now that I think about it, worst case would be if the manufacturer decided to use its own restore software instead of the one built into Windows. I've seen a couple manufacturers do that. Once the system is unbootable on those, you can't restore it. But nobody should be doing that anymore since Windows 8/10.
I would leave it overnight. I've seen a reset take over 4 hours with a SSD. I can easily imagine it taking more than 5 hours with a HDD. And no HDD activity (nor CPU activity) seems to be a theme with Microsoft. Seen it happen often with updates and restores. Dunno what they're doing, but after enough time it seems to get over the hump and continues about half the time.
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