expanding windows files problem

[the337]

Hello.

I just put together a new build:
Asus p8p67m-pro bios: 0412
i5-2500k
8gb g skill ripjaw
crucial c300 64gb ssd
xfx 6950 2gb gpu

when trying to install windows it keeps hanging forever at "expanding windows files 0%"

i am booting right now from an external optical drive through usb if that makes a difference.

i've searched around the forums a bit but haven't come across anything that helps.

any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks!

 

[JCNiest5]

Of my past similar problem, it's the optical drive's fault. I changed to a different DVD drive and it has been working great since then. Sometimes I would stuck at expanding files, other times it would error out saying a certain file can't be found. It was really the DVD drive's fault in my case. You might want to try a different DVD drive and see if it would make any difference.

 

[wesleys_dad]

yea an internal sata drive ..there cheap on newegg....even at best buy and such there fairly reasonable if you cant wait....

 

[aphasia]

why use a dvd to install win7 when you can use a USB flash stick. fairly easy to make a bootable USB win7 thumb drive and a lot quicker to install than with a DVD.

instructions with link to 'USB Creator for Windows 7' on website;
http://www.lancelhoff.com/usb-creator-for-windows-7/

 

[garyG]

did you figure out what was causing it? I get same problem but after a while windows says something about files being corrupt etc.

Going to buy another SATA dvd burner

 

[Arcygenical]

Optical drive, 9/10 times, is what causes this IME.

USB installs are 3x faster and work fine when you can't force an optical-media install. We had a whole whack of workstations do this at work during our w7 upgrade. -_-.

 

[garyG]

My windows dvd was corrupt-tried burning .iso file off it and it failed many times. Finally got an iso file off a torrent used my current windows key and it worked.