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Installation freeze on Setup is Starting... screen
This started with first being unable to boot Windows at all. Booting led windows to start with no interface. I could move the mouse pointer on a blank screen and that was it. Same thing happened while attempting to use my set of recovery disks.
Finally I downloaded an .iso and attempted a fresh install, with the result that it froze before setup even started (just after the language settings screen).
(Windows came pre-installed - but I removed the hidden partition on which the setup was kept some time ago, after making the recovery disks)
I've spent several days searching the Internet for possible solutions, but none of them have worked: Limiting RAM, using a different dvd... Nothing changes.
Using Linux I've determined that the hard drive has no bad clusters, and that the computer can indeed still install and run an operating system without issues.
Any ideas?