Windows 10 Reset Stuck |SOLVED|

When resetting this PC, Windows 10 often gets stuck on the spinning circle with a certain percentage, for example, 99%, 1%, or 66%. Sometimes, this issue is just temporary, and the progress bar eventually goes to 100%. But PC is always stuck at the resetting screen for a long time and cannot work normally.

If Windows 10 gets stuck while resetting your PC, take it easy. Just follow the following recommended solutions and then you will fix the Windows factory reset stuck issue successfully.

Solutions for Windows 10 Reset Stuck

① Repair Your Computer with Bootable Media

 When Windows 10 reset stuck issue appears, you need to reboot your PC with a bootable media. Follow the steps below:

1. Download a Windows 10 ISO installation file.
2. Burn it to your CD/DVD or a USB flash drive with a professional burn tool.
3. Enter BIOS, configure this bootable media to the first boot order and boot your PC from it.
4. Once you enter Windows installation interface, please click this option Repair your computer to go to Troubleshoot window.
5. Then, navigate to Advanced options> Startup Repair, as shown below. This feature is designed to help fix problems that keep Windows from loading.
6. Select an account and enter the corresponding password to start fixing Windows 10 stuck on resetting this PC issue.

② Restore Windows 10 to Its Previous Date

Sometimes, the above way cannot work well. Well then, how can you fix resetting this PC stuck issue? If you have created a system backup for your computer, things will become very simple.

Here a piece of free backup software – MiniTool ShadowMaker will be your choice. This software has a feature called Builder Media, enabling you to create a bootable media to boot your computer. If Windows 10 reset is stuck at 99, 1 or 66%, this software is available.

After booting your PC from the media, MiniTool ShadowMaker will run by itself. Just go to Restore page, choose the system image you have created in advance and click Restore button to start a system recovery by following the instructions.

By this way, you can restore your PC to its previous state and fix Windows factory reset stuck issue.

③ Make a Clean Installation

Sometimes you haven’t made a system backup for your Windows beforehand, then, what should you do to fix the issue? The only option is to make a clean installation with Windows 10 installation disc.

Bottom Line

Now all possible solutions for Win 10 reset stuck on the spinning circle have been mentioned above. In conclusion, you should know to create a system backup is helpful. Once there is something wrong with your PC, the backup file can be directly used to restore it to a normal state. Protect your computer from now on. Or else, you can only fix your issue via Windows re-installation, which can lead to data loss and program re-installation.

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The external hard drive is indispensable to users, especially when they want to make a copy between computers and your important files like photos, videos, documents and so on. Besides, if users what to reinstall another Windows and they don’t want to delete the previous Windows system, the external hard drive is important now. However, when they use the external hard drive, it may ask you need to format the disk before you can use it.

For this problem, we need to know possible reason to avoid the incorrect operation of the external hard drive.

• The file system is not recognized by Windows;
• The external hard drive suddenly loses power when used to transfer files or other content;
• The external hard drive is not properly pulled out or forced to pull out;
• The external hard drive gets a virus attack;
• The external hard drive has bad sectors in the.

Many users may format the external hard drive when the external hard drive needs to be formatted. In addition to formatting an external hard drive, is there any other way?

If users already try to reset the external hard drive to another USB port or another computer, and it still failed. Please try to check if the external disk is under attack by any virus. If this problem still exists, try CHKDSK to fix. Detail steps are here:

Click Run at the Start button;

Type CMD and enter into the CMD window;

Type chkdsk h:/f and press Enter (h is the drive letter where represent the external hard drive.)

It will start repairing corrupted files and click Yes if users want to save the files.

If the users receive this tip from CMD: the type of the file system is RAW, CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives. Users need to format the external drive, then they can enter it.

However, formatting will cause data loss. Therefore, before formatting the external hard drive, please get data recovery software to retrieve the important data from the damaged external hard drive. Here, I will use MiniTool Power Data Recovery as an example. The detailed steps are below:

Step 1: Download this tool from its official website and launch it. Users can see its four modules from the interface. Please select “This PC” and click the partition which represents the damaged external hard drive.

Step 2: Click Scan and the scan time depends on the amount of data. Alternatively, users can select the tools listed in the middle of the interface to filter out the specific files they want to recover, and saving scan time. When the scanning process finished, the result like this picture will be shown.

Step 3: select the files which users want to recover and click Save to a safe location.

When the files are recovered, users now can format the external hard drive. If the external hard disk is not seriously damaged, the user can continue to use it normally.

At the end of the article, the tutorial for the external hard drive needs to be formatted is introduced some tips for users to fix this problem. Hope it will help one of you.

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