Vista Setup 'Installing Features'

GastricTitan

GastricTitan

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I'm installing vista on a new build pc and I get to the 'Installing Features' stage and it doesnt seem to be doing anything, been like this for over an hour now, any suggestions?
 
I've tried restarting, now it doesnt even give me a vista install screen, just loads with the green vista bar, the screen changes to the install colour and nothing more.
 
here is my spec

Processor
Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.33GHz £111.61

Motherboard
Asus P5K-E WiFi Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £129.24

Memory
G.Skill 4GB DDR2 PQ PC2-6400C5 (2x2GB) CAS5 Dual Channel Kit (F2-6400CL5D-4GBPQ) £176.24

Graphics Card
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT SILENT Heatpipe 512MB GDDR3 VIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) £234.99

Harddrive
Samsung SpinPoint P SP2514N 250GB ATA-133 8MB Cache - OEM £38.76

CPU Cooler
Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775) £31.71

SoundCard
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer 7.1 Soundcard - OEM £52.86

Case
Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case £70.49

Power Supply
OCZ GameXStream 600w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Power Supply £58.74

DVD Drive
Samsung SH-183LBEBN 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer Serial ATA Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - OEM £19.96

Keyboard & Mouse
Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop 3000 Black - OEM (69N-00015) £22.31

Paste
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £7.04

OS
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition DVD - OEM - 1Pk (66I-00788) £64.61
 
Ok, I'll try that, currently I'm on the 'installing features' section, I can move the cursor and the X button is highlightable, so no screen freeze, and the hdd indicator is flashing, showing activity. Think I'll leave it running overnight, see if anything happens by the morning. If not I'll try the timings.
 
Just another note, after failing the Vista install the 2nd time, I tried to boot from XP and it said no harddrive found :S Altho the hdd is available in the bios, boot menu and from the Vista installation option.
 
I have a SATA dvd drive, I was unaware of loading any drivers during the installation. I bought an OEM samsung drive so I didnt get any sort or driver disc, just the dvd writing software. Any idea where I can get hold of the driver?

Samsung SH-183LBEBN 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer Serial ATA Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - OEM
 
iv got a spare IDE dvd drive. I've not tried memtest as I have 2 sticks of 2gb and tried an install one each of them. My harddrive is IDE so do I still need to get some SATA drivers for it? If so where can I get them.
 
I dont have any spare IDE leads to try. I'm trying an install with an IDE DVD drive now, but its painfully slow, no different than with SATA. I'll try the memtest next, but in failing that there isn't anything else that I can really do.
 
Just got off the phone to a guy who says to try a low level format or a Zero Fill. The only problem being these are executables inside the windows environment. Anyone know of a way to execute these from a pendrive on start up? I don't have a floppy drive.
 
Just got this message at the 'installing features'

"Windows cannot access the installation sources. Verify that the installation sources are accesible, and restart the installation"

???
 
Been onto overclockers and they said to run a diagnostics on my harddrive but I have no idea how to do it. I have the diagnostics tool on my pen drive, but no idea how to get it to run
 
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