Windows taking ages to install

jimmyjammywho · Oct 28, 2014

Ok so i am currently installing windows on an old Pentium 4 machine with a p4 631 1gb ram and an old laptop hard drive. I already tried installing it before and it just stuck at completing installation so after half an hour i restarted the machine and tried yet again to install windows, and yet again it gets stuck at completing installation. I have left it on to see if anything happens, is this happening due to a problem or is it just taking its time.

dariens007 · Oct 28, 2014

are you trying to install windows 7??? lol, i am pretty sure that it does not meet the minimum requirements in any shape or form. prolly why it's taking so long

jimmyjammywho · Oct 28, 2014

I have installed windows 7 on it before with half a gigabyte of ram but now it's playing up

Outlander_04 · Oct 28, 2014

try installing ubuntu linux . It that does not work you may have a hardware problem . Possibly the hard drive .

And yes more recent versions of windows will struggle , but you should have about the same compute power as a recent intel Atom and they managed to run Win 7 on netbooks

jimmyjammywho · Oct 28, 2014

Yeah I installed a 64bit version of windows and it ran fine yet than when I tried the 32bit version it got stuck

jimmyjammywho · Oct 28, 2014

also if it helps i can hear hard drive activity yet the progress bar is still the same

and could it be the iso im using

Aidan Sweeney · Oct 28, 2014

jimmyjammywho :

1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 GB RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit) -- just for the OS, not applications or data files
DirectX 9 graphics processor with Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) 1.0 or higher
Internet access

The WDDM is not required, but it if you want the Aero Glass effect it is needed.

How many MHz or GHz is the Pentium? That may be the problem, also, I've had 32bit in a VM before and it only had 512 MB of ram, even though it says 1 GB for 32bit....strange.

jimmyjammywho · Oct 28, 2014

ok dont worry guys i solved it by unplugging all usb devices except keyboard and pressing shift f10 and it opened cmd and then wierdly reset straight afterwards and worked

Outlander_04 · Oct 28, 2014

why would you have any other devices plugged in while trying to install an OS ?

Aidan Sweeney · Nov 2, 2014

Outlander_04 :

well you'd most likely need a mouse...

jimmyjammywho · Nov 10, 2014

i used a usb flashdrive to install and forgot to take it out

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