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UberPooner

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Hi, i just put together my computer and it is taking a looong time to install windows. its been about an houre and its 41 percent done. is that normal? i have an asus a8n sli board 7800gtx 350gb hard drive with 16mb cache and 2g of ram.
 
Something is wrong, my system installed it in around 20 minutes.

Penitum D 820, 2gb 667 ddr2, maxtor 300gb 16mb cache, intel mobo
 
hard drive with bad sectors...

Ram problem

Or more accurate, a problem with the CD-ROM Drive
 
are you talking about actually installing windows or are you doing a full format of the drive too? when i do a full format of my 200GB drive it takes quite a while
 
well im starting from fresh brand new everything and noting previously installed. so do u think that is what could be the problem? also when i did it it gave me a choice of quick install or normal and i picked normal. sooooo is there still something wrong????
 
UberPooner said:
well im starting from fresh brand new everything and noting previously installed. so do u think that is what could be the problem? also when i did it it gave me a choice of quick install or normal and i picked normal. sooooo is there still something wrong????
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It sounds like it could be normal as you are formatting the drive. That will take a while on a drive of the size you are using. How long exactly it takes I don't know as I have never formatted a drive of that size. Just see if it gets through the format properly and without any errors. If it does, then I wouldn't worry about anything unless the actual Windows install takes a couple of hours.

 
UberPooner said:
well im starting from fresh brand new everything and noting previously installed. so do u think that is what could be the problem? also when i did it it gave me a choice of quick install or normal and i picked normal. sooooo is there still something wrong????
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yeah if you did normal (which i prefer) instead of quick format it will take a while.... like i said my 200GB takes a while to do.... 1.5 hrs+

just wait until it's finished and start installing windows
 
check and make sure ram is fully compatible.

i worked on a customers pc it was an older one but someone had put new ram in it right before i went to install xp and when i came in work the next day it was only at 50% on copying files, turned it off removed the ram and it installed normal.
 
So... Is it happy now?

If it's formatting that doesn't suprise me at all. Formatting a 350GB could easily take 2+ hours. I just formatted an 80GB that took the better part of an hour a couple weeks ago. Be happy your GB/hour formatting rate is better than it was for that 80GB (WB800JD I think, 8MB cache, 7200rpm)

If it's not formatting, somethings wrong. If you're lucky it's just ended up with one of the drives in PIO mode.

Hopefully it's formatting though. I always like to do a full format on a Windows installation to check for bad sectors (= dead HD, IMHO), particularly on a new drive.
 
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