SharePoint Server 2013 Search Index reset stuck

Hi,

Our Search service in SharePoint 2013 farm isn’t  working properly. Sometimes it takes a very long time like more than 200 hours even to complete incremental crawl ( or sometimes hangs). So we planned to reset the index start full crawl. 

Below are the steps that have been performed 

1. Stop all the running crawling processes

2. Stop “SharePoint Timer Service”

3. Stop “SharePoint Search Host Controller”

4. Reset Search index

5. Start “SharePoint Timer Service”

6. Start “SharePoint Search Host Controller” 

After completing the above steps search is no longer working across the Farm and Indexing is also not working

Regards,

Sudheer

Thanks & Regards, Sudheer