Win 7 Install Stuck at 0% on Expand

[anomaly2181]

I have a 2.5 year old HP Pavilion DV6

Product VR110UA#ABA

Bios F.34
(this is not the latest bios, but I can't find a utility to flash to f.42 in a non windows environment)

It's a dual core with 4 gigs of memory, and a 320gb hd that was already running Win 7 prior.

My trouble is with the getting Windows to expand on the installation. The machine copies the files, and then just sits with the DVD drive active "Expanding Files" it never goes past 1% and eventually yields an error and tells me to reboot.


Things I have tried:

A thorough system check says the hard drive and the memory are fine. So I wiped the drive by writing 0's to it and reformatted it.

2 seperate Win 7 Pro Discs, one of which is an original oem I have used on several other machines

I have tried my older XP and Vista discs, and this machine hangs on those as well.
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Through reading, several other sources indicate it's because ahci isn't active so it wont write to the hard drive. Being this is a HP the BIOS are very limited and have no way to micro-manage such settings.

Any help is much appreciated. I have been working on my friends computer for 6 nights now, and haven't found a solution yet.

 

[Martyn]

I have a 2.5 year old HP Pavilion DV6

Product VR110UA#ABA

Bios F.34
(this is not the latest bios, but I can't find a utility to flash to f.42 in a non windows environment)

It's a dual core with 4 gigs of memory, and a 320gb hd that was already running Win 7 prior.

My trouble is with the getting Windows to expand on the installation. The machine copies the files, and then just sits with the DVD drive active "Expanding Files" it never goes past 1% and eventually yields an error and tells me to reboot.


Things I have tried:

A thorough system check says the hard drive and the memory are fine. So I wiped the drive by writing 0's to it and reformatted it.

2 seperate Win 7 Pro Discs, one of which is an original oem I have used on several other machines

I have tried my older XP and Vista discs, and this machine hangs on those as well.
_______________________________________________________________

Through reading, several other sources indicate it's because ahci isn't active so it wont write to the hard drive. Being this is a HP the BIOS are very limited and have no way to micro-manage such settings.

Any help is much appreciated. I have been working on my friends computer for 6 nights now, and haven't found a solution yet.

Try different memory sticks or remove some memory and try individual sticks. Could even be a faulty slot.

 

[anomaly2181]

alright will try that now

 

[anomaly2181]

it is not a memory problem. I tried with 1 stick in both dimm's with various memory, same problem.

 

[anomaly2181]

Im heading to bed. I will try all new ideas tomorrow when I get home.

~Cheers

 

[Martyn]

Did you try one slot only I had a faulty slot recently that caused a reload problem?

It's odd though it tells you to reboot, memory would be hanging maybe but no message?

 

[TLE]

I would also try installing using an external device such as a USB DVD drive, or a a USB flash drive as the problem could be the DVD drive. I have seen both memory and drives cause these kinds of issues.

Did you format the restore partition as you could always fall back to that?

 

[ljtechservices]

I would also try installing using an external device such as a USB DVD drive, or a a USB flash drive as the problem could be the DVD drive. I have seen both memory and drives cause these kinds of issues.

Did you format the restore partition as you could always fall back to that?

I had this exact same problem last week. narrowed it down to the dvd drive.
Ran a cd/dvd cleaner on the drive and presto.

 

[BDPCR]

First check the HD with an extended test using Drive Fitness Test, memtest86 the memory at least 7 passes. Try a different SATA port and cable and as suggested try a an external or different DVD drive.

 

[Frankie0566]

Hello, I'm also having the same problem. I'm stuck on the same part of the installation.

I know for a fact my it's not the ram RAM 'cause this PC has a removable Hard Drive Bay and the original HD was running XP perfectly.
Now on a different HD I installed a clean install of XP and was trying to do a dual boot of Win7.
The XP install worked fine including all updates and I have no exclamation points on the Device Mngr.
One thing though, when I did the XP install it was a CD-ROM Drive then I had to swap the Drive for a DVD-ROM drive for the Win7 install. It reads the Win7 DVD and starts the install normally up to where it "expands" and thats where I get a corrupt file error. I tried same DVD on an identical PC and same dual boot situation and it worked fine.
So... My guess is it has to do with either the DVD Drive being dirty or the BIOS not being up to date.

Tomorrow I will try a few suggestions from this post and I will post tomorrow my results.

What I will try:
1. Clean the DVD-Drive with one of them Cleaning CDs w/ the little brush on it.
2. Swap DVD-ROM Drives
3. Flash the BIOS to the newest version found.
4. Try the install it on same drive, but different PC all together.
5. Try a totally different HD
6. Try is as a single install instead of a dual boot.

Edited with New thought to try if none of these work for you
7. Try by copying the DVD content to and external HD and run the setup from there rather that fromo the DVD.

Good Luck tomorrow!

 

[Frankie0566]

SOLVED my "Error 0x80070017" FIXED the problem today.

Yesterday I said I was going to try a few things regarding this problem. What fixed "my problem" was just changing my DVD Drive (for an identical one.) I tried cleaning the original DVD drive first, but that didn't work. Once I did that it worked right away.

I was able to install Win 7 and I got all my Windows Updates done. The only problem I encountered after the install was the Video Controller Drivers in the Device Manager. I tried a few Win 7 drivers but none worked so I decided to try a Vista Driver and that worked.

So now I'm HaPpY!

I post the result as a suggestion for anyone trying to fix this error to try using a different DVD Drive and see if that helps you.