Windows 7 RC1 Freeze/halt durning install (expanding files)

I used the boot camp tool to create a 32GB partition and formated within the windows installer. The installer starts expanding the files then freezes and halts at various percent values. I notice the superdrive spins down then powers down before this happens.
I ran the Apple diagnostic tools, holding down "D key" on boot, ran the extended tests = pass. Ran memory tests in windows 7 diagnostics = pass. Ran Ultimate boot CD 4 ran tests = pass.
Is any one else having this issue? Does anyone have a solution?

I've been experiencing similar freezes since shortly. Here's my story.
I have a late 2008 (first unibody) MBP and always had Windows installed via Bootcamp and had (almost) no problems until one month ago. Then came the holidays, now I'm back and I wanted to start Windows to play some GTA. Until yesterday I had Windows 7 RC 32 bit installed, which ran without problems before my holidays. Now it suddenly freezed sometimes at the login screen, sometimes shortly after it.
Since my Leopard install was also a bit faulty, I decided to fully reinstall my Mac from scratch. So what I did is completely repartition the hard drive, installed Leopard, installed all the updates, restored all my data (manually) from an external drive. Then I went through the Boot Camp Assistant to install Windows 7 RC, 64bit this time.
Installation freezes at 77% of "files are being extracted" (already in the graphical part of the setup, after selecting the partition).
Tried Windows XP SP2 32bit afterwards. Also freezes during install.
I don't know what has changed since everything worked fine. I don't remember when the last firmware update was. Could it have something to do with it? Any ideas?
Thanks in advance for any advice!

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Problem:
Anyways I'm currently trying to install Windows 7 professional 64-bit on my late 2011 Macbook Pro 13" through Boot Camp. Now everything goes fine up until the actual installation process (after partitioning and reformatting the hard drive) where the step called "Expanding windows files" sits at 0% and simply refuses to budge.
What I have done up until this point:
Downloaded Windows 7 pro and burned the ISO file onto a DVD-R using Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool. After this, I just ran through the usual steps of opening Boot Camp Assistant, clicking install Windows, and partitioning.
Why I'm about to strangle someone:
I called Apple Care and they told me that since this is a problem that deals with the actual installation of Windows, it is no longer their problem to solve due to it being past the point of being a Mac problem and told me to call Microsoft. So I dutifully called Microsoft in search of a solution. After spending a good part of a day putting up with incompetent support lines, they basically told me "we can't help you because you're using a Mac platform so screw you, call Apple." When I said that Apple could not deal with this problem because it is not a mac problem, they treated me as though I was some kind of idiotic moron and insisted that I either call Apple or go to a local Apple technician (with poorly disguised attitude no less! oh, the frustrationnnn).
Seeing no end to this vicious cycle, I decided take one last leap of faith in the long-standing reputatation of Apple's customer service and made an appointment to go consult the Genius Bar. Surely these extensively trained experts of all people would be able to help me! Two hours worth of standing on a subway train later, I arrived at the towering Apple store on 5th Avenue and walked in with high hopes. When finally called up to an Apple "genius," I informed them of my problem and they told me right off the bat "sorry, we're not certified to help you with Windows problems, call Microsoft." I went to take a walk around Central Park shortly afterwards and threw a random unsuspecting kid into the lake, felt a little better after that (kidding of course... -cough-)
Can someone for the love of all that is pancakes please help me? T_T

burn it again, at very slowest speed possible and have it verified. And that your internal DVD drive is fine and the media you used to burn with.
Actually, I think support ends AFTER install as you still are using BCA to begin the install, and Apple has to supply hardware support drivers and such.
After all, just look at what their FAQ for Boot Camp 4 has to say:
2. What is new in Boot Camp 4.0 for OS X Lion?
Electronic Software Distribution
    Use the Boot Camp Assistant to create a CD or USB media to install the latest Boot Camp drivers for your computer. You should get the newest drivers available any time you install Boot Camp.
Support for the Windows 7 ISO installer
    Install Windows with an installation disc you provide or, on Mac computers that do not have an optical drive, with a USB flash drive that contains a Windows 7 ISO image downloaded from Microsoft. The Boot Camp Assistant will offer to create this image on supported computers.
Upgrade or "clean" install Windows without using the Boot Camp Assistant
    If you want only to upgrade the version of Boot Camp or Windows on your Windows partition, you don’t need to use Boot Camp Assistant. Instead, choose Help > Help Center in Finder and search for “upgrade Boot Camp” or “upgrade Windows.”
With this at the bottom:
Important: Apple does not provide technical phone support for installing, using, or recovering Microsoft Windows. Support is available for using Boot Camp Setup Assistant, as well as installing or restoring Boot Camp software while started up into Windows.
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT4818
"Windows on Mac" aka "Boot Camp" is.... not fully supported anyway it seems to be (drivers, install, ease of use etc) based on the questions and problems and how well it works (including thermal fan control and cooling, wireless, BT, battery life etc) so I give it "90-95%" at best. Less than perfect for sure.
A lot of problems with ISO step are just that most burn using Disk Utility which never worked - even if it installed or seemed to it would fail UNLESS the burn speed was slowed down. Boot Camp Asst 4.01 and later may handle ISO better.
VMs are a breeze but obviously you are not running natively or a full Windows OS, just guest.

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lets see can anyone get their head around this one as it is driving me round the bend.
So... I have a media centre PC connected to my HDTV by VGA cable. I ran the PC on XP for a long time but last December, I upgraded it to Windows 7
along with my laptop.
Cue 5 months of seamless media usage and network integration - it
worked like a dream and I played both HD and SD content with ease.
About two weeks ago, I was watching an HD '.mkv' file in Windows Media Centre and about 10 minutes into the video, the video file just Froze - both the video and the audio. I had to power down and restart the machine and started the video file again. About
5 minutes after re-starting the video file, it hung again (not at the same place in the video). I then went and watched the video on my laptop where
it worked fine.
A few days after this (first time I had used it again since it hung up) I began watching an SD '.avi' file. About 1 minute into the video the display lost it's signal (the little built in 'no signal' graphic came up) and after a further 15 seconds, the audio
cut out as well.
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the display cuts out and the audio quickly follows it.
Suffice to say, I was a little annoyed but knowing a good bit about computers I
decided to try and solve the problem taking the following steps.
1) I uninstalled all my codecs and reinstalled the latest version of the K-Lite Codec pack. The latest version has support for windows 7 so I doubt its a compatibility issue here. After doing this the problem still persisted, exactly the same as before.
2) I checked the date of the drivers for my video card (MSI nVidia 6200) and seen that they were dated sept 2009. I went onto the nVidia site and found the latest win7 drivers dated april 2010 - I installed these but still the problem is there.
3) I then thought, maybe its a problem with the actual video card hardware itself. When I built my machine the parts supplier accidentally
sent me two of the same video card so I swapped out the existing one for a brand spanking new version of the same card. The problem is still EXACTLY the same.
So yes -I am rather annoyed and frustrated at the moment as I have absolutely no idea what is wrong with the machine and how it went from working to not working almost overnight.
I'd like to add also that the display is perfect when doing anything else on the computer - I can surf, play youtube videos, listen to music etc and it is absolutely no problem.
Put on a video and it cuts out the display like I have explained.
halp.

Hello Tim,
I decided to do a clean install, a fresh new installation of windows and all its updates, I didn't get the option of
install SP1 yet.
After that I only installed Catalyst drivers: 11.5 and Realtek HD audio drivers, all downloaded on May 24 2011.
Then latest FFDShow and MPC-HC to test, both x64 versions Nothing else installed.
Only a fresh copy of windows with its updates and those mentioned drivers.
To my surprise, it happened a gain.
It still crashes after a while when playing MKV videos.
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Also there is no possibility to find out what error it is in "Event Viewer" as nothing gets recorded there. Anyone could
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It worked for me as well...cheers............ :)
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KylieSommer wrote:
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Hello there,
I have my Macbook Pro 13'' (mid 2012 version) updated to the latest IOS 10.7.5. But when i tried to install Windows 7 64bits with bootcamp by
following as exactly the latest bootcamp guide, during the Windows 7 installation, expanding files, it will freezes at a random% for sure, i've several times
and still encountering the same problems, is there any other way to fix this? I really need my Windows 7 installed.
Many thanks, and happy holiday for those who reads this.
Apologize for my crappy english.

You may have some sort of issue with the install disc? I might try a different disc - even just try burning a new disc from the old? (I'm not sure how if that would work - don't know much about Windows installation media - but I'm sure that you could download Windows 7 from the Internet as an .iso image and burn that to disc, then use your activation key?).
BUMP!
Clinton
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I have instaled Windows 7 64bit Enterprise edition and installed the lastest version of Firefox and it freezes every time i launch it. Please help me.
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a15bb095-aeb9-44e1-a79c-1a17cee207d503-Jan-1312:28 AM

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*Do not click the Reset button on the Safe mode start window or otherwise make changes.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
You can use one of these to start Firefox in <u>Safe mode</u>:
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*On Mac, hold down the Options key while starting Firefox
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*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Firefox+crashes

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drenched wrote:
Hi all,
Hoping someone can help me here. If I use my discrete video card (nvs 42000m) to boot into windows, it will freeze on the sign in page or sometimes on the metro page however when Optimus is enabled it works just fine.
So I thought it was a driver issue. I went to Nvidia and downloaded their latest video card driver for windows 8.1. No help
Uninstalled that, went to Lenovo's support site and installed their recommended driver and all other windows 8 drivers. Again it would freeze
Booted into safe mode uninstalled that, turned optimus back on, and this time used Windows update to install my video drivers (intel and Nvidia both this time).
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Windows update keeps recommending me to update the monitor driver but if I do, then it freezes again so I'm just leaving it as the default generic monitor.
The reason why I made this thread is to inform and save potential users in the future who have a similar laptop to mine (t520 with hd 3000 and nvidia 42000m) with Windows 8 installed and they happen to choose to solely run their laptop with the discrete graphics card, remember to uninstall your monitor driver.
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Anyone know what this could be? (I am running the newest beta drivers for my soundcard btw)
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Hi Vanilla,
sorry to see that no one has replied to your problem.... I have the same issue here.
I used to have Vista 64bit installed on my Desktop with a Vista that is supposed to be onl;y used for my Dell Laptop......Windows has noticed this and will not let me do updates anymore to my Desktop
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