Windows 7 installation freezes at "Completing installation"

Hi!
I'm trying to install Windows 7 on my mid-2010 Macbook Pro 13". I'm running Lion and have installed all avaliable updates.
I've created the partition in BootCamp and the installation starts but when it gets to "completing installation", just after the computer has rebooted the installation freezes and I'm forced to shut down the computer.
This is what I've tried:
* To burn several different Windows 7 iso file on DVD's with different speed (from the disk utilities).
* Remove all USB connections (which is none since I've a wireless mouse)
Then I've no idea what to do more
One thing that could be the reason is that I (before trying to install Windows 7) had to repair my hard drive (which I did from the disk utilities) and I might have done some sort of misstake there...
Please help!

No help needed anymore, finally managed to install it
The solution was (probably) to eject the CD when the computer reboots and then continue the installation as normal.
I'm not 100% sure this was the solution but anyways, now I've Windows installed.

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Windows 7 Freezes at "Completing Installation"

So, I was installing windows 7 and everything was going great, fast, etc. Computer had just restarted, blah blah. Windows had said "Upgrading Registry and what not" and then when I got to the "Completing Installation" after about 5 minutes it just freezes, I gave it a good 20 minutes of just sitting there before coming to the conclusion it might be a hardware problem?
Then again, why would I get so far in the installation before it doing that? It was at about the 70% marker.
Btw, I'm upgrading to Windows 7 32bit, I'm running Vista 32bit atm, and Vista is freshly installed after a Hard Drive format about a week ago.
Soes any help would be great, if it matters any deal about my computer specs I'm on:
- AMD 64X Dual Core 3.00ghz.
- GeFORCE XFX 6600 512mb
- Default High Def Sound Card
Running a HP PC, but would have really matter?
Anyway, if anyone has any fixes for this or solutions, suggestions, what ever have you, I'm interested.
And also, I should note that I've tryed installing 3-4 times now with the exact same outcome.
I've tryed just the "Update" option, then after that I tryed the "Custom" option in the installation while it was already booted up.
Would a clean installation be the possible fix? The reason I haven't tred I clean installation is cause I just reinstalled Vista and formatted my hard drive a week ago meaning I'd have to make a 100gig backup of my programs, but if doing a clean sweap would have a 100% success rate, I'm all in.
Oh, one more thing, I first tried writing a CD with a RW DVD but I've tryed with 2 different types as well all going at 2x write speed. I still get the same installation Freeze.

I am glad to say that issue solved! Thanks a lot to all of you from that forum, but key problem solver was a guy Alex from MS Technical support.
The problem has been solved after disabling video card in device manager. I was scared to do that before. I believed that this will lead to “no video” situation since I have only one vide card. In fact that action disabled
only driver.
So the successful installation steps were following:
1.
Minimize comp configuration:
Only 1 HDD;
Only one chip of RAM (4 G in my case);
Only PS2 keyboard;
2.
Optimize HDD as recommended at :
(http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/91339-ssd-hdd-optimize-windows-reinstallation.html)
3.
Run complete installation up to the “Completing installation step” freeze.
4.
Activate Computer Manager as described by SheilaP at
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itproinstall/thread/7d765b66-17c6-46e8-94e2-dd39b5b504c1?prof=required;
5.
Disable all devices with “!” mark and video card also (even if it doesn’t have “!”, as it was in my case). Continue
the installation.
Again special thanks to :
Bare
Foot Kid from http://www.sevenforums.com;
SheilaP from
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itproinstall/thread/7d765b66-17c6-46e8-94e2-dd39b5b504c1?prof=required;
Alex from MS Technical support.
Sincerely,
Michael

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Got it!
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https://discussions.apple.com/message/11290644#11290644
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Hi Oscar_G,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
Is your Windows 7 software 64 bit or 32 bit? Boot Camp 5 only supports 64 bit Windows 7.
Did you create the Windows partition using the Boot Camp Assistant?
Below are some resources to troubleshoot the issues you are having installing Windows on your Macbook Pro:
Boot Camp 5: Frequently asked questions
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5639
Apple - Support - Boot Camp - Get Started
http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/getstarted/
Boot Camp: System requirements for Microsoft Windows operating systems
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5634
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manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1636/en_US/boot_camp_install-setup_10.8.p df
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Hi All,
I have read the forum and see that it is quite common that the Windows 7 is freezing up on the "completing installation". I have tried a few of the suggestions, for example, increasing hardrive from 25G to 60G and even putting a USB keyboard and touching keys on it, and well, nothing has worked. Here are the details:
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Hi Mr. Murphy,
Thanks for your reply. I appreciate it. I don't believe anything is wrong with my hardware (bad ram, ESD, and etc). However, I do agree that there is something that the Windows installer doesn't like. I am already barebones, per say, as I am still running on out of factory hardware. Is there anyway I can verify that my hardware is working appropriately in Mac osx?
As for the DVD, it's legitimate copy and DVD from MS. I even tried the 32 bit version instead of the 64 bit. Hence, there is definitely something with my environment that it doesn't like. I just wish there was a way I could determine what that was.
I'll consider VM as a last resort, but what really weirds me out is that this went in two months ago and now it is not. Granted, I was operating on the first version of Lion.
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