installing vista takes forever

LEGEND · 28th November 2008, 10:47 AM

i have an ACER ASPIRE 6930G laptop which i recently purchased i used it for a few hours and hated all the acer crap that comes with vista.
so i reformated the hard drive and started installing my own vista ultimate 32bit. all went fine until it reached the final stage "COMPLETING INSTALLATION"
It has not hanged but it's taking forever, so far it's been over 1 1/2 hours and i am still waiting for it to complete.
any suggestions because i am about to kick the shit out of it.

Kizuka · 28th November 2008, 11:35 AM

I see this laptop has a SATA drive. Try, if you can, changing the SATA mode to ATA in BIOS (assuming it's using AHCI now, or just disabling AHCI altogether, i'm not familiar with the BIOS options for this laptop) and then re-try the install.

LEGEND · 28th November 2008, 1:18 PM

yeah that's what i was also thinking but it finally snapped out of it after 2 hours and said it doesn't have all the drivers needed for the install.
so i installed my 64 bit version and that installed no prob. i just could not get the internet going but i downloaded the LAN drivers of acer's website and that is working for my updates.

power · 28th November 2008, 1:35 PM

you could have just uninstalled the ACER stuff....

Geej · 29th November 2008, 2:36 PM

Yea, this pissed me off the first few times I encountered it (why does it have to happen right near the end :P)... On Dell machines you can just switch the sata operation to ATA instead of AHCI... or insert the disk with the AHCI drivers when it gets to the partitioning stage of the installation. I assume its pretty much the same for every laptop, but I've only had experience with Dell machines

28th November 2008, 10:47 AM	#1
LEGEND Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: in space Posts: 147	installing vista takes forever i have an ACER ASPIRE 6930G laptop which i recently purchased i used it for a few hours and hated all the acer crap that comes with vista. so i reformated the hard drive and started installing my own vista ultimate 32bit. all went fine until it reached the final stage "COMPLETING INSTALLATION" It has not hanged but it's taking forever, so far it's been over 1 1/2 hours and i am still waiting for it to complete. any suggestions because i am about to kick the shit out of it.

28th November 2008, 11:35 AM	#2
Kizuka Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Canberra, ACT Posts: 208	I see this laptop has a SATA drive. Try, if you can, changing the SATA mode to ATA in BIOS (assuming it's using AHCI now, or just disabling AHCI altogether, i'm not familiar with the BIOS options for this laptop) and then re-try the install. __________________ GAMEBOX: Core2Duo E8400 (E0) 3Ghz \| Gigabyte EP45-DS3R \| 4GB OCZ PC2-6400 Reaper HPC 4-4-4-15 \| Corsair HX-620 \| HIS 4870x2 \| 2 x WD6400AAKS 640GB RAID-1 \| Noctua NH-U12P \| Coolermaster Elite 333 \| Windows 7 7100 64bit

28th November 2008, 1:35 PM	#4
power Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: brisbane Posts: 17,705	you could have just uninstalled the ACER stuff.... __________________ This is Who We Are.

28th November 2008, 1:18 PM	#3
LEGEND Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: in space Posts: 147	yeah that's what i was also thinking but it finally snapped out of it after 2 hours and said it doesn't have all the drivers needed for the install. so i installed my 64 bit version and that installed no prob. i just could not get the internet going but i downloaded the LAN drivers of acer's website and that is working for my updates.

29th November 2008, 2:36 PM	#5
Geej Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Brisbane Posts: 89	Yea, this pissed me off the first few times I encountered it (why does it have to happen right near the end :P)... On Dell machines you can just switch the sata operation to ATA instead of AHCI... or insert the disk with the AHCI drivers when it gets to the partitioning stage of the installation. I assume its pretty much the same for every laptop, but I've only had experience with Dell machines