Advice Request Very slow Windows 7 clean installation [Solved]

[Ashu Kumar]

hello friends,

This is an unusual situation for me related to Windows installation.

My sister's desktop was unbearably slow (to boot) and poor in performance (Explorer would take ages to show the attached removable drives...eternal green progress bar ), so I decided to do a clean installation of Windows 7-32 bit on it with a bootable usb.

Specs:
2 GB ddr2 RAM
Intel i3 processor
320 GB hard-disk (3 partitions)

To my surprise, I can't get past the Windows logo greeting window. It seems to stuck there and it's been more than 2 hours.

Considering the situation, I deleted the C partition using GParted with a thought that it would reduce the installation overhead but installation process is stuck at "Starting Windows" (as shown above in screenshots).

What could be the issue? is it related to hardware/motherboard issues because of which Windows is unable to process the installation?

Note: The Windows 7 image source is original and it is perfectly bootable. I have used it to install on other machines without any problem.

help me please.

 

[Janl92l]

maybe something in the bios settings. i had almost the same problems after i buyed this laptop with win8. Wanted to install win7 until i figoured out i need to change bios settings from safeboot and fastboot to disable both.

 

[jamescv7]

One thing for sure is either on the bootable CD/DVD or USB as sometimes scratches or dirt cause to make it slowdown on the process. Try to conduct a new one which is clean and observe the possible differences.

 

[done]

One thing for sure is either on the bootable CD/DVD or USB as sometimes scratches or dirt cause to make it slowdown on the process. Try to conduct a new one which is clean and observe the possible differences.

thats the right answer. clean the dvd reader eye

 

[Ashu Kumar]

Ok, I tried again with a new bootable usb, and this time it was a success!

 

[frogboy]

Ok, I tried again with a new bootable usb, and this time it was a success!

Very good news.