Preparing for First Use

I have completed the installation of Windows 7 Ultimate (64 bit) using Boot Camp Assistant on my MacBook Pro (MBP) 13-inch with 250 GB HDD (stock) and 4 GB DDR3 1067 MHz (stock), which I got in June this year (2010). So, when installation is complete, the setup asks you to restart.
So, I restarted my MBP and booted into Windows 7 Ultimate. The Windows symbol came out and after that the screen changed to the screen with the words "Setup is preparing for first use" and a bar that glows beneath it (with the glow moving from left to right and changing color through the spectrum of light). However, the setup hangs or freezes in the middle of this. This mean that the glow doesn't move and the screen does not change.
Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.

I don't know the particulars of the MBP but there should be other threads and users. It does not seem to be normal.
This is retail DVD and not an ISO downloaded and burned that came from school? otherwise you may need to re-burn the DVD.
See if it loads in Safe Mode
Reboot from Windows 7 DVD
May need to uninstall a device driver
After Windows is installed you'll need your OS X DVD to install/add Apple drivers and services
One you do have Boot Camp 3.x installed on Windows,
Boot Camp Update for MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010) (Windows 64 bit)
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1044
http://ourcoffeestops.com/2009/01/guide-windows-7-x64-build-7000-on-a-macbook-pr o/
http://blog.andersonshatch.com/2008/04/13/macbook-pro-and-vista-64-bit/
http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro/
http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
It could be a disk error, in which case CHKDSK or start over and when you format NTFS, instead of quick format, use full format with option to map out bad blocks. And that is IF it is disk drive error.
I had an error once but it was after I had been using Windows, and I had a 2nd user account I could login and correct the problem with the first account (folder needed was read-only and likely disk I/O error).
I favor Windows 64-bit, but you may want to try 32-bit instead, and unless you plan to add more RAM, shouldn't make any real difference. Retail copy comes with both versions on DVDs.

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