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I think my windows installation froze midway through.. what should i do?

Asked by Fallstand (1130points) February 9th, 2008

I decided to reformat last night and let the installation go overnight.. When I woke up, it seems to be stuck at 33mins/installing devices.. Those little random facts about windows keep shuffling through.. and little boxes at the bottom are still going.. It just doesn’t seem to moving anywhere though…

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jrpowell's avatar

It shouldn’t come close to taking that long. Pull the plug and start over. Something went wrong.

Installing XP shouldn’t take more than a hour.

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Fallstand's avatar

hm.. should I just try the Leopard on a PC install..? doesn’t seem like its working for a lot of people though

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jrpowell's avatar

I would avoid installing Leopard on a PC.. You might get it to work but the next update from Apple will probably break things. It might be fun to play with but I wouldn’t use it for a computer you actually need to work tomorrow.

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Spargett's avatar

Funny how a question about installing XP moves to people telling him to install Leopard by the second post.

I’m a Mac user myself, but I’m certainly pro-choice and don’t think Leopard is quite the right answer he was looking for.

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neonez's avatar

I would just start over at this point and hope it works the second time

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