

Thanks so much for your quick reply @balatekie.
Very good questions. I'm going to answer them out of order though. 1) I (erroneously) selected the option to keep my files, even though this was a "new" open box computer. 2) There was no error message. It simply hanged on a dark/black screen that indicated it was 48% complete and said something like, "please wait" or "do not turn off your computer". I'm not 100% sure because I went to bed at 1:30 am and when I checked it again at 7:30 am it had not changed, so I shut the computer off. When I restarted it I got a message that the restoration had been unsuccessful and had been reverted.
That's when I posted my question. Then I upgraded the RAM from 4 GB to 16 GB and tried the restore/reset again, but this time I chose to erase everything. I am happy to report that the restoration/reset process worked flawlessly this time and took only less than an hour!
I am very happy with the results as it is running as I would expect.
Thank you again for your response!!
Thanks man for the response and I am happy that you got your computer back to workktman55 said:Thanks so much for your quick reply @balatekie.
Very good questions. I'm going to answer them out of order though. 1) I (erroneously) selected the option to keep my files, even though this was a "new" open box computer. 2) There was no error message. It simply hanged on a dark/black screen that indicated it was 48% complete and said something like, "please wait" or "do not turn off your computer". I'm not 100% sure because I went to bed at 1:30 am and when I checked it again at 7:30 am it had not changed, so I shut the computer off. When I restarted it I got a message that the restoration had been unsuccessful and had been reverted.
That's when I posted my question. Then I upgraded the RAM from 4 GB to 16 GB and tried the restore/reset again, but this time I chose to erase everything. I am happy to report that the restoration/reset process worked flawlessly this time and took only less than an hour!
I am very happy with the results as it is running as I would expect.
Thank you again for your response!!