Windows 7 Hanging During Installation
In the process of trying to upgrade a household computer from Windows XP to Windows 7, I noticed that the Windows 7 installer hung at the blue background. No warning/error message or prompt was given, and I had to do some research in order to get the installer to work properly. After a few tries, and disabling features such as USB support and the CPU Turbo Mode (in the BIOS), solutions that had apparently worked for other people, there was still no progress. After some more searching, I found the way to fix this problem was to disable the Floppy Drive in the BIOS, as the computer did not acutally have one installed. After that switch was made, the installer was working fine.
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