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Installation hang problem
Hi Guys,
After reading loads and loads of threads relating to windows 7 hanging during installation and trying everything I can find (to no avail) I've finally had to resort to asking for help!
The problem
I'm trying to install windows 7 PE 64 bit from an original Microsoft DVD. The setup file loads fine. I can get through the bit where you choose 'custom installation' and then the releavnt partition. It also completes 'copying windows files' almost instantly. It normally runs 'expanding windows files' for a minute or so, sometimes to 1%, but mostly 0% and then hangs, sometimes rebooting as well.
Other problems / indicators of what might be wrong
Firstly, I can install XP fine. And this works without problems, although i haven't used it extensively on this install (being desperate to install windows 7). On the win7 setup program run from boot, if you click on 'repair this computer' it hangs immediately with a long beep. I have only once received a bsod. This said 'Page fault in non paged area'
Solutions I have tried (without success)
- Copying the DVD and trying to install from that. The DVD copied fine, but the results are exactly the same.
- Using one stick of memory. I've tried just using one stick, swapping them round etc. No joy.
- Running memtest. I've run a dos version of memtest86 from a boot flash usb. It's done several passes without any problems at all.
- Updating bios. Have updated from 1.1 to 1.3.
- Disabling almost everything in bios, including usb.
- Upping the ram voltage in bios to 1.65v from the default 1.5v.
- Installing to different hard drives, sata and IDE.
- Installing from a different DVD drive (IDE) which I know is good. (Weirdly xp installed fine from the sata dvd drive, but it wouldn't start. I disconnected this dvd drive and it loaded fine. Maybe a coincidence, I don't know)
Suggested solutions I haven't tried
- The only thing i haven't tried yet is installing win 7 from a usb flash disk, mostly because i don't have a 4gb flash disk. From what i've read, this method is relevant where people are burning bad dvds from the ISO. As I have an original ms disk surely this shouldn't be a problem?
I hope someone can think of something that I can't!
Thanks in advance, and let me know if you need any more info.
Tim