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Gartis
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« on: October 21, 2009, 07:31 PM »
So I had my laptop for about 3 years now. Works fine. My hard drive went kaput, and It was just replaced. I am trying to reinstall Vista Home Premium 32-bit on it now (It worked before, so I know it can run it. All that was replaced was the hard drive) but it when it installs, it finishes the "installing updates" portion and gets stuck at "completing installation". It just doesn't finish. The bar at the bottom is about 75% across.

I'm using a Gateway laptop. Any ideas?
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« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2009, 07:26 PM »
Have you tried doing a reformat of your new drive? I'm not sure if that will help, but if some part of the install is corrupted, that might fix it. I assume since you just replaced your drive and havent got an OS on it yet that reformatting won't have you losing any data.
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« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2009, 09:44 PM »
Your new hard drive might be fucked. You should run the manufacturer diagnostics on it and see.
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« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2009, 03:11 PM »
Yep. the new hard drive was busted. They gave me ANOTHER one, and it's all working now. Thanks Badgerconda.
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« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2009, 03:32 PM »
No worries. Hard drives have a really fucking high failure rate. they're the only important component that involves moving parts, and their construction is fairly complex as well. They're usually the first thing to check when your computer starts shitting the bed.
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