Installation Extremely Slow - Hangs during Expanding Windows Files

Question

I'm trying to get 7 to install and I'm having a bear of a time.  It has taken a tremendously long time to cycle through the steps and after a little more than an hour, it was only at 6% of Expanding Windows Files.
I've taken a stick of RAM out bringing me down to 2gb, have tried three burns (one at the slowest speed and verified), neither has helped.  Please help.
My system specs:
5400+ Black Edition (non-OCed)
Abit AN52 Motherboard (nForce 520)
OCZ PC-6400 4gb (2gb during install)
XfX Geforce 8800GT
Western Digital Raptor x2

Answer 1

i was having the same problem on my system dell inspiron i try all the possible ways but still the same no any achievement after all the process i even give up and install xp but suddenly i try one process which is by using pendrive and it woks perfectly
here are the process of doing so
get a pendrie 4GB minimum
Step 1. Preparing USB drive
Open command prompt, from Start > run > cmd. If you are on vista or Windows 7, you might need to run it as elevated administrator. You can do this by creating shortcut to “cmd” on desktop then right click
> “Run as Administrator”.
Enter following commands -
> Diskpart
DISKPART> LIST DISK
Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
Disk 0    Online           93 GB    13 MB
Disk 1    Online           8 GB    6 MB
Note down the number corresponding Disk number. 1 in my case
DISKPART> SELECT DISK 1
>CLEAN
>CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
>SELECT PARTITION 1     – This 1 remains same always.
>ACTIVE
>FORMAT FS=NTFS
>ASSIGN
>EXIT
Step 2. Copy Installed CD/DVD contents to USB drive
> xcopy e:\*.* /s/e/f f:\
where e:\ is your source DVD drive, f:\ is target USB drive
Step 3.Changing BIOS Settings
Reboot into BIOS. Change settings to Enable “Boot from USB”, and give it the highest precedence. Save settings and reboot, You would reboot into installation.