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Vista install hangs on expanding files

  • 21-06-2009 9:38pm
    #1
    Sad Professor
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    My uncle's Vista installation is hosed. I'm not quite sure how it happened except that it froze on him and he unplugged it. Now it won't boot up properly, log-in, nothing. It's a 3 year old Dell Dimension. I've run hardware diagnostics, CKDISK, etc and everything checks out fine.

    However I've been unable to repair the Windows installation so I'm now trying to do a clean install for him using the Vista disc - but that's not working either. I've booted from it and it gets as far as "Expanding files 0%.." and stops. I've tried waiting up to 30/40 minutes but it won't progress any further.

    The only thing I haven't done is reformat the hdd - is this likely to make any difference? Any other suggestions for what's wrong?

    Cheers.


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  • #2
    JonathanAnon
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    Have you tried
    a) booting to Safe Mode or one of the other Advanced Menu Boot modes.
    or
    b) logging in with a different user, profile might be corrupt.


  • #3
    Sad Professor
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    JonathanAnon wrote: »
    Have you tried
    a) booting to Safe Mode or one of the other Advanced Menu Boot modes.
    or
    b) logging in with a different user, profile might be corrupt.
    Safe mode wouldn't work and it wasn't even getting as far as the login screen. After startup there was just a black screen with the cursor on top. Task manager wouldn't work either. The windows repair program on the cd said everything was fine. :rolleyes:

    Anyway I managed to do a clean install. Formatting the hdd seemed to fix whatever was stopping the installation from progressing.


  • #4
    Lazarus2.0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,772 ✭✭✭Lazarus2.0


    Vista instal would need 15Gb free space so perhaps that was why you couldnt instal without formatting ?

    A little late now , even if that was the cause :o


  • #5
    Sad Professor
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    nessyguin wrote: »
    Vista instal would need 15Gb free space so perhaps that was why you couldnt instal without formatting ?
    That was my first thought as well - but there was about 80Gb+ free.


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