I'm in the process of installing Windows 10 for someone, on a 500 GB SSD that I formatted as part of the installation. Everything was going smoothly, I rebooted, entered the next phase of installation, selected some locale-related settings... and then Windows told me "Just a moment".
30 minutes later, I'm still waiting.
Questions:
- Why is this happening?
- What should I do about this? Restart the machine? Something else?
Having switched to Linux several years back, I'm not used to this particular annoyance :-(
Notes:
- If you need additional details about my system, please ask in the comments.
- Related, but focus on another point: Windows 10 installation stuck at Just a moment
2 Answers
A partial answer:
I found a post on a Microsoft support website supporting my speculation that power-cycling could work. So, following it, here's what I did exactly:
- Powered the machine down with a long press on the power button.
- Removed the Windows installation media (in my case, the flash drive).
- Powered the machine back up.
- Entered the UEFI boot menu.
- Chose the apparently-newly-installed boot manager on the SSD.
I got that blue-perspective-windows logo for a while, then I arrived again at the "Just a Moment" screen. But a second or so later, the installation continued to checking for updates, or what's new on the network, or something like that, and continued from there on with a couple more settings it wanted to have me make.
I can't guarantee that this will work for everybody in this situation, but - that's my experience. Better than waiting indefinitely.
Also - I have no idea why this happened!
One issue could be the bootable USB - I personally use the media creation tool () so I can install Windows 10 on either a UEFI or Legacy BIOS.
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