TooPackShaker Posted October 27, 2003 Share Posted October 27, 2003 should I be worried if this has been showing for nearly 30 minutes on my legit copy I picked up at PDC today? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eosKENuids2 Posted October 27, 2003 Share Posted October 27, 2003 um.... yeah "Hardware could not be detected. Please restart the computer, and try again" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TooPackShaker Posted October 27, 2003 Author Share Posted October 27, 2003 well this is the setup. I dont wanna restart if the install has not completed. its still hitting the disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted October 27, 2003 MVC Share Posted October 27, 2003 give an hour... anything over an hour would seem like it's having a problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KTamas Posted October 27, 2003 Share Posted October 27, 2003 yep yep...it gave 40 minutes to me.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdrozd Posted October 27, 2003 Share Posted October 27, 2003 try doing a fdisk first. Did you have a version of Linux running before on this HD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TooPackShaker Posted October 27, 2003 Author Share Posted October 27, 2003 yeah it finally finished, I left the house so Im not sure exactly how long it took. But nearly an hour if not more. I did have linux but all the partitions have been reformatted a couple times since then. it probably took so long because its a 500 mhz PIII Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lykwid Posted October 27, 2003 Share Posted October 27, 2003 it took FOREVER for me.... 10 minutes my butt.... i waited for it.. and 30 minutes later i just went to sleep since i gave up waiting haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pimpshiznid Posted October 27, 2003 Share Posted October 27, 2003 I started it, left it at that screen, and 3 hours later, it was done... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velocity3k Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 lol, it took me 7 minutes max, the whole installation from putting the cd in to the desktop appearing took around 35 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreamsINdigital Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 Took me 30 minutes to detect hardware from installing on VMware... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 Obviously its going to take a while, as you have unoptimized + debug code + incomplete code in the Pre-Release OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sethrd Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 I got Longhorn installed today, but there were too many memory leaks. Explorer was taking upwards of 120MBs and I was getting blue screens of "Unknown Hard Error" I gave up and am back on XP. I couldn't launch IE, and the taskbar wouldn't load. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGD Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 Longhorn's been working pretty well when I've tried it. It's obviously not working as well as XP, but it's definatly been useable for me. The Hardware Detection probably took about 20 minutes on my PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thollian Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 left it there for over an hour and still would finish, going to leave it over night and see what happens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bART- Posted November 9, 2003 Share Posted November 9, 2003 After a few minutes it seems to crash here, i get a black screen for a split second, and after that, the upper half of the install screen, the cursor doesnt do anything anymore, and the entire computer stops responding. Should i just wait longer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecat2000 Posted November 10, 2003 Share Posted November 10, 2003 heh yes this one was really odd :rolleyes: took mine over 14-15 minutes or so to finish setting up the hardware ! :o Me thinks M$ will have to revise this part of the install some how to say "hey this could take a while" go a way and make a Cup of Tea or Something" :p - would be better than saying 10 minutes :woot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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