Try this... I can't get past \"Expanding Windows files\" at 0%, the installer is also very slow. I get stuck at the wallpaper for around at least 5 minutes, and then I hang on \"Starting install\" for another 5. I've let it sit for around a half hour, and then it gives me an error saying I don't have all the files. Is this CD just DOA? (It's a CD from the software, it isn't a burned ISO etc.)
I'm trying to do a full install of 64-bit from 32-bit Vista.
I would do a USB flash drive, but I have no other computer than this one (other than my netbook) so I can't extract from the CD. I'm in the process of downloading an ISO from a torrent site, though.
My specs:
INTEL C2D E6750 2.66G 1333FSB
ASUS P5N-E SLI NFORCE 650I SLI MB
EVGA GEFORCE 8800GT 512MB PCI-E
500 GB SATA II 3.0 GB 16MB 7200RPM
I had this issue as well, and it took the entire last 48 hours to develop a work around. Your DVD is fine there seems an issue that is affecting the installation of windows 7 from optical drives.
First thing, Did you use the microsoft upgrade tool to verify that you would have no issues with the install?
You can find this tool here
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/get/upgrade-advisor.aspx Now I ran this tool and the tool informed me that I would need to do a clean or "custom" install. In doing so I ran into the same issue that you are having (would freeze at 4% then request the GRMCPRFRER_EN_DVD to be placed in the drive bay. For those of you who don't know this is the Windows 7 Disk, My copy is Retail not an iso burn.) This occured with a Windows7 OEM disk, and a Windows7 Professional Retail.
The work around is to copy your windows 7 disk to a 4GB or larger USB flash drive. This can be done on either a 64 bit or a 32 bit machine, you are not running the software you are copying it. Make sure that your USB flash drive format is NTFS. Finally, rename your flash drive to the same name as the DVD.
For those of you needing to know how to do this on XP here is a step by step link.
How to format NTFS on XP
How to format USB drive and memory stick with NTFS If you have a USB boot-able computer this is all you should need to do.
for Rookje
You have 1 more specific issue, you are running a 650i board, which I do not believe has USB boot option. So, here is the same work around that I did for my 680i board. Set the bios to boot from the CD, put in the Windows7 disk, wait until the the black screen with the windows logo pops up, (this is after the two white bars) remove the disk and plug in the jump drive that you copied and renamed.
Windows7 will install in about 10 min. Which will cause you Joy, and aggravation that it took so many hours to do something that should have been relatively easy.
If you have any specific questions about this work around please send me a PM.