I tried all sorts of different ways to resolve this, I had been using Ver 7000.
Hi, I am using Windows 7 RC1 圆4 My first install with the new RC1 did exactly as you said. ) If your friend has different media, both of you swap some discs, see if that takes care of it. Long story short, I would highly recommend trying different disc media before you start messing with bios settings and/or other things that could potentially damage your PC.
I replaced the disc and voila, installed just fine. So I found another stack I have of disc (verbatim I believe, they are the type with inkjet tops and no identifier) and burned that one with nero(verifying data) instead of the win 7 burning tool.
The Memorex ones worked on 2 machines, but even the exact disc I used for those 2 would not work in the other one. Even when I started with that media I had to burn 4-5 copies before I got 2 discs to even be recognized at startup. The original burned ISO's using the win7 iso burning tool with Memorex DVD+R. After returning home from work and looking at the various results here I decided to start going through some of the less time consuming walk-throughs. I let the other one sit over night and it was still sitting at 0% this morning. My main workstation installed fine as well (Asus M3N72-D, Phenom II 9850 Black, 4 GB Ram). One of the machines installed with no problems. Mobo: Biostar TA790GX A2+ CPU: AMD Phenom Black Edition 9850 Ram: Corsair Dominator 3x1 GB system Ram DVD: Samsung OEM Super Writer drive HDD: both have old Maxtor drives i had lying around.
I've been having the same issue as far as the hanging.