Windows Install Stuck


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I was trying to reinstall Windows from the files I copied to my hard disk from my CD. However, it gets stuck at "Finalising Installation" with the time at 28 minutes to go. I have waited for 2 hours, but no disk activity, no change, just the propaganda text changing.

My system specs:

20 Gb Quantum Fireball HD.

Onboard M'board sound

Onboard M'board graphics

Onboard M'board LAN

700 Mhz AMD Duron

256 Mb SD RAM

At first it was stuck while "Installing Network", so I yanked out my PCI network card. So now its stuck at "Finalising Installation".

I have basically taken out everything except the Hard disk, the CD ROM, the processor and the RAM.

If anyone knows something about the BIOS/m'board settings that might be causing this, please inform.

Please request any specs you need.

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Maybe, the reason that it stuck might happen because you copied files from CD to HDD. *Maybe* some files were not copied or *maybe* it was not suppose to be install from a HDD. That might cause a conflict at the "Finalizing Setup" stage. If possible, try re-install from the CD and see if the problem still persist.

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I had the exact same problem. I was installing XP on my dad's friend's PC using the same CD I used on my own. It would get to setting up network (about 32 minutes remaining), then restart and begin again from installing hardware. So I took everything but the RAM and HD out, tried again. It got up to finalizing installation (6 minutes), then restarted and did the same thing over again.

Finally I gave up and put 98SE in :cool:.

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