Windows 10: Reset to factory settings has failed with multiple methods - SOS!

Hello all! I am having a hell of a time trying to prepare a Lenovo Yoga 730 laptop for sale locally. I logged out of all relevant accounts and apps on the machine and then navigated to the usual Recovery > Reset > Erase all Files and Settings, and let it do it's thing. Around 20% of the way through it kicked me to an error screen that said "Windows couldn't reset, nothing has been changed." I thought this may be due to the fact that I had selected to erase all drives and partitions, including Lenovo's recovery one that includes drivers. Maybe Lenovo had some measure in place to prevent novices from losing the drivers and freaking out. No worry, I thought, and tried again - this time selecting only the OS partition. Same result.

I then tried creating a recovery drive. After the tool completed, I used the "Recover from a drive" function to initialize a wipe and reset. I chose the option to wipe all data and clean the drive. Since I'm selling locally and it was just a personal machine, I'm not very worried about taking any more extreme measures than that and figure that Windows' built in cleaning tools will be good enough for this purpose. At 76%, this recovery method has frozen. The spinning wheel has stopped spinning, and the screen has displayed "76%..." for 3 hours now.

I'm at a loss here. The last option I can think to try is using Media Creation Tool to make a bootable Windows installer and then doing the dinky little quick format option to erase my previous install partition in the "select install disk" menu before reinstalling to the drive. I don't want to do this because it doesn't seem to be nearly as comprehensive of a data erasure measure and doesn't feel like a responsible choice, even given that it's just a personal machine selling locally.

On top of that, I'm not even sure if I should shut down the unit while it's "stuck" on 76% because I have no idea what that might do. I guess it doesn't really matter at this point if it borks the image or any of the data...

I have a buyer ready to meet, and seemingly no way to just friggin' reset the computer to factory settings. The only thing I can think of that might be causing the problems is the Lenovo factory recovery partition which only contains drivers as far as I know.

I've never had an issue like this after resetting dozens of PCs over the years, and any further advice for what to try next (without compromising data cleaning) would be MUCH appreciated. Thank you in advance!

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Hopefully I can help you here....its a very common thing to happen.


First, I take it you dont know the passwords for console access or telnet/ssh?

I will assume that these devices belong to you.

step 1. Plug a cisco console cable into a serial port on your pc
step 2. Plug other end into Cisco console port
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Go down the list and match your OS and SW and try the sequence suggested.

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