[SOLVED] Windows 10 reinstall stuck at 64%

[JacobSmith2301]

SORRY, POSTED IN WRONG THREAD.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Repair installs rarely ever help or work. Usually if the problem is bad enough to NEED it, it just doesn't work.

ANY kind of installation should NEVER take more than a hour, at most. Maybe two on a very slow system.

Unfortunately you may be looking at the loss of the whole OS and the need to do a clean install. You do have a backup of any important files that were on that partition, yes? If not, well, this might be a learning experience. If you do, then that is a good thing and you could likely move directly on to doing a clean install.

How To - Windows 10 clean install tutorial

If you are looking for the Windows 11 Clean install tutorial, you can find that here: Windows 11 Clean install tutorial (Click here) Otherwise, welcome to the Windows 10 Clean install tutorial This tutorial is intended to help you, step by step, to perform a clean install of Windows...

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[JacobSmith2301]

Repair installs rarely ever help or work. Usually if the problem is bad enough to NEED it, it just doesn't work.

ANY kind of installation should NEVER take more than a hour, at most. Maybe two on a very slow system.

Unfortunately you may be looking at the loss of the whole OS and the need to do a clean install. You do have a backup of any important files that were on that partition, yes? If not, well, this might be a learning experience. If you do, then that is a good thing and you could likely move directly on to doing a clean install.

How To - Windows 10 clean install tutorial

If you are looking for the Windows 11 Clean install tutorial, you can find that here: Windows 11 Clean install tutorial (Click here) Otherwise, welcome to the Windows 10 Clean install tutorial This tutorial is intended to help you, step by step, to perform a clean install of Windows...

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Hi, no I don't have a backup from that recently, could I not take out my hard drive, put it in an external enclosure and take the files I need off of it, or is it likely that all of my files would now be corrupted?

 

[Darkbreeze]

You can try that, but there's no guarantees at this point. That would have been something that was a lot better to do BEFORE it got this far. Try it, you don't have anything to lose at this juncture.

 

[JacobSmith2301]

You can try that, but there's no guarantees at this point. That would have been something that was a lot better to do BEFORE it got this far. Try it, you don't have anything to lose at this juncture.

Yeah, I realise now that I should've backed up before this point, oh well, as you said, it's a learning experience. Thanks for the help.

 

[Darkbreeze]

For sure. If you have further questions later don't hesitate to ask. Good luck Jacob.