problem solved. I was running the install from a mounted virtual drive and not a disc. I burnt the iso to a disc at a slow 600kb/s and then ran from the disc and everything installed fine.
I tried upgrading my Windows 7 build 7000 x64 to build 7068 x64. Some time into the upgrade and error message appeared saying that a file failed to install and thus the upgrade was unsuccessful. If it is something wrong with my iso image of 7068 please direct me to where I can get a good copy of...