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Found this on google to save me time but this is the exact error i am getting,

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When you say reset; are you talking about a system recovery to a different date or a clean factory reset? Are you also on Windows 7, 8 or 10?

TaigaAisaka wrote When you say reset; are you talking about a system recovery to a different date or a clean factory reset? Are you also on Windows 7, 8 or 10?

Windows 10, and just resetting it to remove all my files on my PC. Basically a fresh PC on windows 10.

Curv wrote

TaigaAisaka wrote When you say reset; are you talking about a system recovery to a different date or a clean factory reset? Are you also on Windows 7, 8 or 10?

Windows 10, and just resetting it to remove all my files on my PC. Basically a fresh PC on windows 10.

Okay so there could be multiple things. First any files you want to keep, slap them on a USB or external HDD; if you're not keeping anything, then ignore this whole line completely.

You've already tried doing a factory reset from the desktop, so try a factory reset while in safe mode. When on your desktop, click the windows icon in the bottom left corner, click the power button and now start holding Shift; while holding Shift click Restart. You should see a screen that comes up with a few options, one of them should be "Troubleshoot." Click that and then "Advanced Options" from there press number 4 on your keyboard (Number 4 should be boot into safe mode.) Once you boot into safe mode try to do the factory reset again and let it run it's course.

If safe mode didn't work, do the exact same steps above but this time press 6 on the keyboard instead of 4. 6 should be Safe Mode with Command Prompt. Once you login, you should see your Command Prompt screen, go ahead and type this in sysreset -factoryreset to force the factory reset, let that run it's course to see if it will allow you a factory reset.

If at this point it's still not working, it could be because you are "lacking" administrator access; as arbitrary as that sounds since it's your PC. Create a new profile on your PC, give that new profile admin access and try again from the desktop for a factory reset and let it run it's course.

If for some reason you still can't do a factory reset you're going to have to wipe your HDD. If you have a Windows installation CD you can just pop that in, try to reinstall windows and format that HDD. If you don't have a Windows installation CD, you'll have to download 3rd party programs to wipe your HDD (be very careful with doing that) or use a CD that is meant to wipe your HDD.

Edit: If using the Safe Mode with Command Prompt; if sysreset -factoryreset doesn't do anything, try systemreset -factoryreset
Windows 7 used systemreset -factoryreset while Windows 8.1 used sysreset -factoryreset. I believe Windows 10 will use sysreset -factoryreset but if that does nothing try systemreset -factoryreset

dont use built in recovery its stupid and buggy always do a usb clean install

Mario350 wrote dont use built in recovery its stupid and buggy always do a usb clean install

That's completely wrong.

99% of the time the reason the built in reset doesn't work is because of system corruption.

iOSx wrote

Mario350 wrote dont use built in recovery its stupid and buggy always do a usb clean install

That's completely wrong.

99% of the time the reason the built in reset doesn't work is because of system corruption.

Yup iOSx is correct.

I have been a very similar problem and I still am. I constantly need to do an update and it fails and reverts and just repeats and repeats. I do a Windows Troubleshooter and it always finds a Database Corruption and i apply the fix and it does not work!

I am just going to download the new Windows Update, I will get back to you if this works!