Windows 7 installation hangs at "Completing Installation” - I’m at my wits end

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What should have been a straight forward installation of a new SSD (that I have done before) has turned into a nightmare.

First of all I attached the hardrive and installed windows 7 without a hitch. Then for some reason the installation got corrupted (I think in my haste I restarted the comp while is was installing a million updates). No problem I thought, I’ll format the hdd and install it again. This is where things started to go wrong.

First of all I got the bootmgr missing error which I managed to fix by formatting the sdd again. Now I move onto my current problem.
Windows 7 installs fine until I get to completing installation and then it hangs for ages (~2hrs). I’ve sent ages looking through various fixes on Google and I can’t get any of them to work.

- AHCI is enabled
- Created an ISO file from the windows disk and tried to boot from usb
- Swapped a usb keyboard for an old one (whatever they’re called)
- Disconnected everything when window reinstall during installation that I can (keyboard, mouse
- Disconected everything I Can from the MB – wireless adapter, 3 sticks of ram (Left with 1 stick of 1GB), optical drive
- Swapped gfx cards
- Booted in safe mode as far as I could and tried to disable the display adapters, although they weren’t there.
- Run RAM tests
- Used Intels toolbox to run a drive diagnostic scan – all fine.

I really don’t know what else to try. An hour before Windows installed flawlessly on the same drive. Also if I reset bios defaults and plug the old hdd back in the computer boots and runs fine.

Any suggestions?
 
Assuming this is on an Intel-based system, I saw this with some old Dell Vostro laptops with Vista, where the Intel mass storage driver didn't work.

If you are selecting the Intel mass storage driver during installation (where you browse for the hard drive controller drivers) then try it without. Or the other way - if you aren't using them, download them from the Intel site.

I don't know if this link will work, but they're here. You'll want f6flpy-x64.zip (64-bit) or f6flpy-x86.zip (32-bit). Extract the files and whack them on a USB stick and choose them during installation.
 
By the sounds of it the green bar is a good 70% away along and it just sits there?

If so I had this problem, restart the setup and as it does the first reboot remove all USB connected devices eg mouse, KB, USB stick if installing from there

I have no idea why this works but it does for me

Kimbie
 
this_is_gav said:
Assuming this is on an Intel-based system, I saw this with some old Dell Vostro laptops with Vista, where the Intel mass storage driver didn't work.

If you are selecting the Intel mass storage driver during installation (where you browse for the hard drive controller drivers) then try it without. Or the other way - if you aren't using them, download them from the Intel site.

I don't know if this link will work, but they're here. You'll want f6flpy-x64.zip (64-bit) or f6flpy-x86.zip (32-bit). Extract the files and whack them on a USB stick and choose them during installation.
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I can only see the drivers when I try to install windows if I untick the 'Hide drivers that are not compatable on this computer' so I guess these are the wrong ones.

Probably should have said that it's not for the comp in my sig

MB - Gigabyte 965P-DS3P (rev 2.0)
SDD - Intel 520 120GB

Nikumba said:
By the sounds of it the green bar is a good 70% away along and it just sits there?

If so I had this problem, restart the setup and as it does the first reboot remove all USB connected devices eg mouse, KB, USB stick if installing from there

I have no idea why this works but it does for me

Kimbie
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tried that, doesn't work for me :(
 
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SOLVED.

It works.

After hours/day of frustration I’m in
I don’t really know how but I just thought I could try a few basic things. I used a different cable and inserted it in the pink (Intel?) SATA port (think I’ve tried this before however)

Guess what it installs

Thanks for all your help and suggestions guys.
 
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