hard-reset

English

Verb

hard-reset (third-person singular simple present hard-resets, present participle hard-resetting, simple past and past participle hard-reset)

  1. (computing, computer hardware, transitive, uncommon) To perform a forceful restart or reinitialization of a device, system, or process, typically by cutting power, or using a dedicated button.
    • 1993, Ron Dippold, Windows Secrets, page 155:
      Do not hard reset the computer while you're using a disk caching program!
    • 2002 July 26, Dan, “Hard reset without using the power button - Is it possible?”, in alt.comp.sys.palmtops.pilot‎[1] (Usenet):
      I have a Sony Clie S-360 with a broken power button (I managed to drop it, of course :-) So far, I didn't miss any functionality because I used a hack to remap the To Do button into a power button, but now I need to hard reset the unit and I'm not quite sure how to do it.
    • 2019, David Dubins, Electronics and Microprocessing for Research, 2nd Edition, You Can Make It, page 390:
      Another way of hard-resetting the microcontroller within in a sketch is to connect a jumper from any digital pin to the Uno's RES pin, and set the digital pin HIGH in OUTPUT mode.
    • 2021, Olivia Chadha, Rise of the Red Hand, Volume 1, page 179:
      "Close the system, Ghaazi, now!" Suri says. Ghaazi scrambles and pushes me out of the way, hard resetting the system.
  2. (computing, computer hardware, transitive, uncommon) To factory reset a device.
    • 2025, Ben Myburgh, The $500 Bet and How I Met My Father:
      As soon as I pulled back onto the road I realized my one grave mistake: hard resetting the Zumo had erased everything that was stored in the system; gone was my tiny blue track that had followed me for months; gone were my trip statistics - all gone.
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