I'm going through my first Boot Camp installation and it has been stuck for about 20 minutes already at 'Expanding Windows files (0%). Expanding Windows files is based off the media type you using to install the OS to machine. I used a DVD i downloaded of the.iso and tried both USB external and CD-ROM drive. Both stalled @ 88%. Manual de usuario vw polo 2005.

I'm trying to get 7 to install and I'm having a bear of a time. It has taken a tremendously long time to cycle through the steps and after a little more than an hour, it was only at 6% of Expanding Windows Files. I've taken a stick of RAM out bringing me down to 2gb, have tried three burns (one at the slowest speed and verified), neither has helped. My system specs: 5400+ Black Edition (non-OCed) Abit AN52 Motherboard (nForce 520) OCZ PC-6400 4gb (2gb during install) XfX Geforce 8800GT Western Digital Raptor x2. Guys, I did it!! I've managed to install windows 7 64bits on my PC.

Here's what I did: there are two options in the BIOS Setup called K8 KN HT Speed and K8 KN HT Width both as Auto. The thing is: I've heard that maybe the problem was related to HyperTransport. So I've put K8 KN HT Speed to 1x and K8 KN HT Width to 8 8. It worked as a charm.

It's installed in roughly 30 minutes and not once the LG DVD-RAM stopped reading. Of course, after the installation completed I've changed both options to Auto again.

Without changing them back, Windows 7 would freeze everytime I tried to access my HDDs. Report back if this works. My specs: A64x2 4200+ Abit AN52 (nforce 520) flashed to rev.16 Corsair 2GB 800MHz Radeon HD 4670 Maxtor IDE 40GB (Windows 7 here) Seagate SATA 200GB LG DVD-RW sata Realtek Ethernet adapter D-Link DWL-G510 Wireless adapter SB Audigy SE. I've been having the same issue as far as the hanging. I have 2 nearly identical PC's.

Mobo: Biostar TA790GX A2+ CPU: AMD Phenom Black Edition 9850 Ram: Corsair Dominator 3x1 GB system Ram DVD: Samsung OEM Super Writer drive HDD: both have old Maxtor drives i had lying around. One of the machines installed with no problems. My main workstation installed fine as well (Asus M3N72-D, Phenom II 9850 Black, 4 GB Ram).

I let the other one sit over night and it was still sitting at 0% this morning. After returning home from work and looking at the various results here I decided to start going through some of the less time consuming walk-throughs. First focusing on the media. The original burned ISO's using the win7 iso burning tool with Memorex DVD+R.

Even when I started with that media I had to burn 4-5 copies before I got 2 discs to even be recognized at startup. The Memorex ones worked on 2 machines, but even the exact disc I used for those 2 would not work in the other one. So I found another stack I have of disc (verbatim I believe, they are the type with inkjet tops and no identifier) and burned that one with nero(verifying data) instead of the win 7 burning tool. I replaced the disc and voila, installed just fine. Long story short, I would highly recommend trying different disc media before you start messing with bios settings and/or other things that could potentially damage your PC.;) If your friend has different media, both of you swap some discs, see if that takes care of it. Hope this helps someone!