Windows 7 setup Copying Windows Files stuck at 0% no hard drive activity no DVD drive activity setup is responding, I can hit X and cancel, the 3 activity dots are changing it's been over 10 minutes, I will watch a show and see what happens just wondering what the main causes of this are
well this board is an Asrock Dual 939 VSTA and it has 2 SATA 1.5Gb ports and 1 SATA 3Gb port (which they call SATA II) using the "SATA II" port in "SATA" mode (AHCI?) the install would not get past 0% I switched over to the SATA 1.5 port 1 and setup went quickly from Copying to Expanding. so I assume there is some issue w/ the "SATA II" port on this particular board. I hope it is not a chipset issue.
Maybe try IDE mode? If you're convinced your main board is not causing your problem, download a clean copy of Windows 7 via a link found on this forum, create a new installation disk and start over. It'd also be a good idea to wipe and format your drive if restarting from scratch. There are many programs to do that, I like GPartEd, but that are many more.
I had this problem when windows 7 was launched. My asrock system did not accept the windows 7 dvd. The problem was the bootfile on the dvd that was not compatile with with the asrock MB. I made a dvd with a different bif file (boot information file);you can find bif files on the internet via google. Use a program to make iso files, import the bif file (make dvd bootable) and put all the directories and files from the windows 7 dvd in the iso file. Write the iso file and burn it to a new dvd. Hope it works for you as it did for me.