Windows 7 install problems

Parmesan · 10 Oct 2011 at 21:11

Hi guys, right I've been out the PC hardware scene for some time, and I've just been given a PC by my brother, only thing it was missing was a hard drive.

So purchased a 320gig sata drive & a copy of windows 7. Everything fine until I go to install windows...

boot from disk is all fine, copies initial files ok, set up the hard drive, all correctly formatted. Click next, gets to "Expanding Windows Files" and sits at 0%

I left it for and hour earlier and came back, still the same, so tried again, formatted everything and exactly the same problem only 2 hours this time!

Is this normal, is it going to take a full day to install, or is something seriously wrong!

ian54 · 10 Oct 2011 at 21:21

A common solution to this problem is removing all but one memory stick, and disabling some of the devices in the BIOS.

Parmesan · 10 Oct 2011 at 21:23

ian54 said:
A common solution to this problem is removing all but one memory stick, and disabling some of the devices in the BIOS.

Yep, tried it with one stick of ram on the second try, also disabled any sort of floppy drive in the bios

marmalade · 11 Oct 2011 at 17:26

you don't mention the contents of the puter.
Check all connections HD etc

TwoSaints · 11 Oct 2011 at 17:52

I found unplugging my mouse solved a similar problem and did the install with keyboard only.