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Reinstalling a dell vostro laptop?

I'm trying to reinstall a Dell Vostro laptop but am having issues. When reinstalling Home Premium it goes through all the steps fine until Completing Installation where it gets to 3/4 and then just stops. When I say stop the hard drive light etc becomes inactive and there doesn't appear to be any life, the progress bar stops but the little ..... etc continues.

Any ideas

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  • wakandem
    wakandem Posts: 591 Forumite
    how long have you waited? Installs can appear to stop for a few long mins. Make sure all usb devices are not connected and also network cable, pcmcia cards etc
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  • System
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    wakandem wrote: »
    how long have you waited? Installs can appear to stop for a few long mins. Make sure all usb devices are not connected and also network cable, pcmcia cards etc

    It was left an hour or more.
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  • System
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    Problem sorted, Had to go into BIOS and change to ATA mode
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