is it supposed to take this long to install vista?

Hey,
I'm currently reinstalling vista on my m1730 from a format. I've been stuck in the "completing installation" phase for a very long time. It doesn't seem like the hard drive is writing any information or doing anything at all. Is it supposed to be like this?

 

Is the little thing that shows how far you are percent wise changing at all?

 

Well, this is my first time installing vista after formatting. For copying windows files > expanding files > and installing updates they all had a (%). FOr completing installation no % is displayed to the right. It just simply keeps repeating the display of "..."

On the bottom of the screen the green bar does not move.

 

Hmm... give it another 15 minutes. And if nothing happens, I think it might have frozen... did you unplug it or hit it or anything of the like?

 

No, not at all. Sitting in the same position on the desk. I didn't touch the keyboard. After about 30 minutes I hit enter, spacebar, esc. Nothing happened... besides when i hit esc it brought up a message saying the whole "if you cancel now your windows installation will be fubard"

Tried turning the computer off, started the installation again and it stopped at the same spot. It's been there for a good 30 minutes once again

 

When you get to the completing install step should there be a % showing up?

It just keeps going . .. ... . .. ...

 

You could redo it...

 

Yeah.... I really don't know. That's way peculiar. Mine sat there for a while also, but it changed after a while. I'd give it some more time. It might change.

 

on the completing install phase i can move the cursor but it's jittery. The HD doesn't seem to be doing anything or the dvd rom. I've restarted the process a few times now. I started this one at the beginning of this episode of smash labs.. which was 15 minutes ago. I'll give it 15 more.

 

How long did it take for you guys to get out of the completing installation phase? If it's 30 minutes.. then i'll continue to wait.. but if its supposed to be you know..... 10-15 minutes... then something is messed up


This is my 3rd time re-doing it.

 

The first time it took a couple hours to install it completely. The second and more times, like a half hour. But those were all complete installations. If it doesn't work in 15 minutes. Completely delete and reformat the drive (so it's just unallocated space) and install it. Let it do it overnight.

 

that's what i'm doing now. I completely reformatted and am doing a complete install. If it doesn't work by the end of this smash labs episode (smash labs is an hour long - great show on discovery channel where they like to blow **** up!) i'm just going to turn the notebook off and try again tomorrow ;d

 

2 hours and still stuck on the phase.

 

Like Crimson said, sometimes it takes a while. Let the PC sit overnight and see where its at tomorrow.

 

I wonder if some files may be corrupted on the DVD. Depending where you got the disc, it could be a bad burn or something like that. It shouldn't take more than an hour or so.

PS. Smash Lab is a Mythbusters rip-off!

 

I've done it multiple times, and it only took maybe 20 minutes each time.

 

Yea, i tried again just now. It's been about 45 minutes now and i'm still stuck on the "completing installation" phase. I'll wait 2 hours max, I dont think it could possibly take longer then 2 hours.

 

I got he disc from Dell, it shipped with my notebook.

 

Weird, my clean install was completed in 20 minutes.

 

Just redownload the Vista discs and burn a new copy of the install disc and try from that. Sounds like there is a problem with your Vista disc.

 

mine did the same thing, i just held the power button, it shut off, then i turned it on again , and when it said press any key to boot from disc i didnt press anything and it booted and finished the installation. i used the windows feedback panel disc.

 

Update? Did it work? Did you just abort it and restart?