Installing windows 18% stuck?

[Boredommadness]

I had a media created disk with the Windows 10 setup and decided to reinstall Windows. I finish I finished the setups and selecting the things I'd like to keep and such. It finished loading and restarted the machine and loaded up till 18%. Now it's just saying Installing Windows 18%
Don't turn off your PC. This will take a while. And it has been at 18% for a long time. Does that mean something?

 

[neieus]

How long is a while? Also were you reinstalling over top the previous windows installation or did you choose to install from scratch so that nothing from the previous install remained? Chances are it's stuck on a device driver or something similar if it's trying to copy files over from the previous install.

 

[Boredommadness]

How long is a while? Also were you reinstalling over top the previous windows installation or did you choose to install from scratch so that nothing from the previous install remained? Chances are it's stuck on a device driver or something similar if it's trying to copy files over from the previous install.

It's been on 18% for about an hour and half.
I'm installing over another. I told it to keep files. And it said it will delete apps and settings and I clicked install and here we are. So if it's stuck on a driver, what do I do?

 

[neieus]

Well I'm pretty sure it's stuck on a driver.... You could try backing out of the install but It's probably to late for that. The other option would be to start the reinstall over but tell it NOT to keep the existing files. What this will do is install windows as if it was brand new but what Windows doesn't tell you is that it doesn't actually delete the previous installation of windows. After the clean install as been completed you will end up with a folder called Windows_Old which contains all the files from the previous installation. You will still need to install everything as if it was the first time but if there are pictures, documents or other files you want they will still be there as will the rest of the windows directory. So basically you will have this giant windows directory folder just sitting there that you can't delete without taking ownership of the file permission. From there you only need to find the files in their previous locations and move them over to the new windows install directory then delete the windows_old to recover the space.

 

[Boredommadness]

Well I'm pretty sure it's stuck on a driver.... You could try backing out of the install but It's probably to late for that. The other option would be to start the reinstall over but tell it NOT to keep the existing files. What this will do is install windows as if it was brand new but what Windows doesn't tell you is that it doesn't actually delete the previous installation of windows. After the clean install as been completed you will end up with a folder called Windows_Old which contains all the files from the previous installation. You will still need to install everything as if it was the first time but if there are pictures, documents or other files you want they will still be there as will the rest of the windows directory. So basically you will have this giant windows directory folder just sitting there that you can't delete without taking ownership of the file permission. From there you only need to find the files in their previous locations and move them over to the new windows install directory then delete the windows_old to recover the space.

Oh. Okay. Soooo... Should I press and hold the power button to shut it down because it seems to the only way now?

 

[Boredommadness]

Well I'm pretty sure it's stuck on a driver.... You could try backing out of the install but It's probably to late for that. The other option would be to start the reinstall over but tell it NOT to keep the existing files. What this will do is install windows as if it was brand new but what Windows doesn't tell you is that it doesn't actually delete the previous installation of windows. After the clean install as been completed you will end up with a folder called Windows_Old which contains all the files from the previous installation. You will still need to install everything as if it was the first time but if there are pictures, documents or other files you want they will still be there as will the rest of the windows directory. So basically you will have this giant windows directory folder just sitting there that you can't delete without taking ownership of the file permission. From there you only need to find the files in their previous locations and move them over to the new windows install directory then delete the windows_old to recover the space.

Okay update. It left the installation screen and now the screen is black.

 

[neieus]

Sorry it's been a long New Years weekend so I haven't been checking for replies. Yes the screen will be black because the installation didn't finish so you're going to need to do the install from scratch without moving any of your files over. Once the installation has completed there will be a folder called windows_old and that will contain all of your saved files. If you haven't figure this out already and ended up reinstalling windows check your C drive and you should see that folder.

 

[Boredommadness]

Sorry it's been a long New Years weekend so I haven't been checking for replies. Yes the screen will be black because the installation didn't finish so you're going to need to do the install from scratch without moving any of your files over. Once the installation has completed there will be a folder called windows_old and that will contain all of your saved files. If you haven't figure this out already and ended up reinstalling windows check your C drive and you should see that folder.

Ooooo... Thanks man. I figured it out. But there was no windows old folder. And my disk space was back to almost empty. Expect with the system files taking a bit of the space... So all my files are gone. But I'll live. But thanks really.

 

[Boredommadness]

Sorry it's been a long New Years weekend so I haven't been checking for replies. Yes the screen will be black because the installation didn't finish so you're going to need to do the install from scratch without moving any of your files over. Once the installation has completed there will be a folder called windows_old and that will contain all of your saved files. If you haven't figure this out already and ended up reinstalling windows check your C drive and you should see that folder.

Except** my PC is still being slow even after the reinstallation... I probably need a new one sooner or later...

 

[neieus]

Well that's odd the folder should be there.. it all comes down to the selections you made when you installed windows. As for why it's running slow it could be a number of reasons so you may need to do some more troubleshooting. For example if you're running an SSD and the space is nearly used up that will cause things to slow down tremendously.

Good luck

 

[Boredommadness]

Well that's odd the folder should be there.. it all comes down to the selections you made when you installed windows. As for why it's running slow it could be a number of reasons so you may need to do some more troubleshooting. For example if you're running an SSD and the space is nearly used up that will cause things to slow down tremendously.

Good luck

I guess so. But most of my settings were default. I was just clicking next next install. At some point, at the disk selection, it said something about The partitions on the disk selected for Installation are not in the recommended order for additional information about installing to GPT disk go to the Microsoft website and search for GPT... But thanks anyway...