Installing is taking Forever! Enterprise Ed

[Scott Townsend]

I'm trying to install Vista Enterprise Ed (VL) on a Dell PC. The machine had
WinXP and the install was working fine, just thought we would give it a new
look.

Put in the Vista Disk1 CD and booted form it. Wiped out and formatted the
Main Partition. Then proceeded with the Install. Accept the EULA , etc..
Gets to the Copying Files and sits there. I see the ... after the % move,
though it takes maybe 5+ minutes for each %. Once it gets done with the 4
disks, it tries to Expand the files. After several hours yesterday of
expanding files it was only 22% done. Came back this morning and it said
the machine was rebooted and Install had to start over.

If I just let it reboot I get the win startup progress bar for a bit, blank
screen for 20+ minutes and come up with the same error saying that I need to
restart the install.

So I booted from CD again and am at square 1 with a few % of copying files.

It should not be taking this long. What can I do to trouble shoo this?

 

[BigJim]

there maybe some hardware on your system that Vista doesn't like.
Vista should take no more than an hour to install.
You need at least one meg of ram and a good video card to get it to run up
to it's full potential.