vista takes ages to install

When i first installed vista it did not take much time , but after formatting
my HD and installing vista again it comes to the point where it says
expanding files and it takes ages ....i really mean ages ...i sat in front of
the screen and in 3 hours it was just 37% complete...i give up now ...please
help me installing vista as fast as people say it can be installed...why i
can install XP in less than 15 minutes on the same machine

My Specs:
Intel core 2 duo
965 intel motherboard
SATA drive
7950 GX2 graphics card

Are you trying to Add Vista on another or on the same partition as XP. What steps did you take to reformat and how .

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"sayasars" <sayasars@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8F4A514B-7A12-4744-82B6-FE9AA487C989@microsoft.com...
> When i first installed vista it did not take much time , but after formatting
> my HD and installing vista again it comes to the point where it says
> expanding files and it takes ages ....i really mean ages ...i sat in front of
> the screen and in 3 hours it was just 37% complete...i give up now ....please
> help me installing vista as fast as people say it can be installed...why i
> can install XP in less than 15 minutes on the same machine
>
> My Specs:
> Intel core 2 duo
> 965 intel motherboard
> SATA drive
> 7950 GX2 graphics card
>

"Peter Foldes" wrote:

> Are you trying to Add Vista on another or on the same partition as XP. What steps did you take to reformat and how .
>
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> Peter


I booted using the vista DVD and from there i deleted the partitions and
then created a separate 50 gig partition to install vista doing a quick
format...any help is greatly appreciated.

Im having the same problem??? With vista & windows 7
But the wierd thing is it when installed it on my laptop it installed
quick as hell!
and my laptop is no were near the the spec as my desktop pc! infact my
laptops graphics cant run vista's areo graphics at all!

So i dunno? apart from the only way i manged to do it after sending
back my dvdrw drive bk under its warrenity in case it was that? but it
wernt... was to take out my HDD and put it in to another computer and
install it on that way... but it just makes no sens! when my desktop pc
is the best one in the house out off all the pc's my family has... lol
Tbh i say STICK TO XP for now... lol

AMDx2 4000+
2gb DDR2 800mhz
DVDRW ram drive
250gb HDD
Gforce 8600


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pattmerkins