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> Spliiit;901360 Wrote:
>> Hi, about a week ago I decided to do a clean install of Vista to replace
>> my XP and Ubuntu. After formatting my drive and starting the
>> installation I noticed an excessive load time by the Vista DVD, after
>> the green bar appears and it says loading Windows I get the Vista
>> background and from there it takes close to ten minutes to load the
>> screen that asks you to select your region and language. This continues
>> throughout the whole installation requiring more time then usual to load
>> screens. Then I get to "select drive" I find my drive, WD 4000KS 400gb
>> SATA, and here I've tried everything from formatting to partitioning.
>> Once I click next I get to the screen that says Copying, expanding, etc,
>> there it begins copying but it just jumps from 0%-100% complete, then it
>> goes to expanding and after a minute or so I get "missing file" and
>> installation fails (this I'm assuming is because the copying step is
>> obviously not copying the files). Then I restart and it's back to square
>> one. I can't figure this out and I've been trying for a week now, I've
>> tried installing XP that now fails, tried using two different optical
>> drives, tried copying the disk to see if it was potentially too scuffed
>> up, tried using the DATALIFEGUARD provided by western digital and non of
>> this works. I would really appreciate any input or suggestions, I'm a
>> college student and not having a working computer right now around
>> finals sucks lol. Thanks.
>>
>> I'm using
>> MSI K9N65GM-V Motherboard
>> WD 4000KS 400GB SATA hard drive
>> 2x 1GB Kingston memory
>> HP dvd 1040 optical drive
>> and an unknown Emprex dvd drive
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> Hello Spliiit,
>
> It seems that you have done your homework by testing other CD/DVD
> drives and your Vista installation disc.
>
> In addition to what you have done, you might use a different data cable
> for the CD/DVD drive to see if the old one is bad or has a bad connector
> on one end. It could also be a bad hard drive, so you might test
> installing on another hard drive to see it works then to.
>
> Hope this helps some,
> Shawn
>
>
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