I reset my nitro 5 and it's stuck at 31% for an hour

Burns

I need some help

MaClane

Good Morning Burns !

In some cases the procedure may last up to more than 20 hours.
Keep your device plugged into the power outlet and do not interrupt the process.
Usually between 30 and 45% are the most time consuming factors.

Elky64

MaClane is right it can take up to several hours sometimes as W10 is funny that way. Time can vary considerably from one rest to another, even on same computer. Just did resets in the past month on a few laptops with one taking a good 4 hours, another took less time (1.5 hours) but at one point I swore it was dead (absolutely not an ounce of screen/disk activity), but lo and behold to my surprise it sprung to life. So yeah patience my friend.

sri369

@Elky64
This is the primary reason i set up bi weekly backups of windows partition, and have my all data folders mapped to my secondary hard disk. If windows misbehaves, I simply revert back to an earlier back up and it becomes as good as it was. On a side note, backing up takes about 5-7 minutes, and restoring takes about 10 minutes - very short compared to how much time windows needs to rectify itself, if it is successful in rectifying that is.

MaClane

In fact the issue is just file access.
In the Acer recovery partition, the files are not contiguous and are compressed.
So the first few times a restore is accessed it tends to take longer as it needs to access the entire base in order and unzip files in RAM.

Elky64

sri369 said:

@Elky64
This is the primary reason i set up bi weekly backups of windows partition, and have my all data folders mapped to my secondary hard disk. If windows misbehaves, I simply revert back to an earlier back up and it becomes as good as it was. On a side note, backing up takes about 5-7 minutes, and restoring takes about 10 minutes - very short compared to how much time windows needs to rectify itself, if it is successful in rectifying that is.

That's great yet won't address a stubborn update that, decides to take forever to install, and/or messes with Windows boot partition rendering computer useless. Yes you'll be back up and running in no time yet w/o that update. Then there's a good probability you'll have to go through the same process when that update wants to install again. That's been my nemesis since 2015, Windows updates especially the "feature" ones. Just hoping now that we have much newer hardware those woes of the past will be mostly a thing of the past, kinda doubt it though.

sri369

Elky64 said:

That's great yet won't address a stubborn update that, decides to take forever to install, and/or messes with Windows boot partition rendering computer useless. Yes you'll be back up and running in no time yet w/o that update. Then there's a good probability you'll have to go through the same process when that update wants to install again. That's been my nemesis since 2015, Windows updates especially the "feature" ones. Just hoping now that we have much newer hardware those woes of the past will be mostly a thing of the past, kinda doubt it though.

I have my feature updates deferred for 365 days and normal updates deferred by 30 days - giving enough time to decide when to install them. Plus even in this case, I have my windows tell me there are updates but not automatically download them.
Also, i have my windows update blocked from updating drivers and BIOS.

Elky64

sri369 said:

I have my feature updates deferred for 365 days and normal updates deferred by 30 days - giving enough time to decide when to install them. Plus even in this case, I have my windows tell me there are updates but not automatically download them.
Also, i have my windows update blocked from updating drivers and BIOS.

Yes I'm aware of all that yet my gripe w/Windows updates is that it doesn't bar well for the faint of heart or those less than tech savvy. The problems is, updates are still too dumb in deciphering whether it should or shouldn't install and just dives right in, results in many instances aren't known until it's usually too late. Own all sorts of devices running Windows 7, Linux, Mac OS, Android, iOS, and over the past 4-5 years when an update has arrived on any of them it's been a "set it and forget it" affair 99.99999% of the time. Definitely cannot say the same about W10.

Started toying w/computers in 1987 using every version of Windows since, and for me personally W10 has been the worst OS by far in regards to being problematic during/after an update, amongst other things. Began using W10 in its alpha/beta stage having good luck, started going downhill when it became mainstream in 2015. Sometime in 2017 we got so fed up diagnosing problems associated with these updates that we barely used anything w/W10 if it could be helped (my multiple desktops/laptops rarely saw the light of day)... Gotta remember back then earlier builds didn't allow user intervention basically forcing updates on a user's when they became available. If it weren't for the fact 2019 showed some improvements (consistency/stability) w/Windows 10 updates, and my preferred programs being Windows based, not so sure I'd have bought another Windows 10 based machine.

As reference... When first got my Nitro 5, while in stock form, we decided to apply all updates. Was running 1809 updating to 1903, problem free install. 1909 on the other hand decided to boot-loop of sorts, download, install, fail - download, install, fail... Yes we could have deferred but the need shouldn't be if Microsoft had done their homework as my Nitro was almost 2 months old at that point compared to date of update release.

The point of the matter is, it's still can be a ***** shoot installing updates imo whether it's done soon as available or 6 months down the road and Microsoft still needs to improve on that.

sri369

Elky64 said:

Yes I'm aware of all that yet my gripe w/Windows updates is that it doesn't bar well for the faint of heart or those less than tech savvy. The problems is, updates are still too dumb in deciphering whether it should or shouldn't install and just dives right in, results in many instances aren't known until it's usually too late. Own all sorts of devices running Windows 7, Linux, Mac OS, Android, iOS, and over the past 4-5 years when an update has arrived on any of them it's been a "set it and forget it" affair 99.99999% of the time. Definitely cannot say the same about W10.

@Elky64 ... since you mentioned the above, let me tell you how i set up my system.

I always keep my windows partition separate - this smaller partition has windows and windows only, and any installable software. I used to create a separate partition for documents (a separate partition on a separate disk when i grew up to earn enough to add a second hard disk). This way any windows crash or misbehavior my documents are safe and i could access them even if windows crashed. Infact... when moving from Vista --> 7 --> 10 all i did was install windows and some programs - and then map the folders within documents to my documents folders.

Windows 7 was the best in terms of stability, I must say - one of my older laptops has over 7 years on it and still going with the windows i installed on it when i got it and added an SSD. 10, on the other hand, is the worst I have seen thus far - considering all OSes since DOS 5. On 7 I never bothered about backing up windows partitions; but with 10 i have then on running pretty much every 1-2 weeks.

On both Predator and Nitro 5 - the first thing i did was to clean install the latest version of windows, and then install any other Acer specific programs as needed. With windows 10 I kinda feel it is best to go with clean install when possible then with feature updates. All in all, 10 has been the most unreliable for me (not counting Vista that i used for a very short period). And true... windows 10 updates always send jitters not just to you and me, but even to our office network teams who have to face the brunt of user issues - they keep sending out reminders about 2-4 days before the scheduled push of updates.