Laptop hangs up on Install of windows 7

[tadroptopgirl]

A friend of mine was having problems with her 4 year old Toshiba. I installed windows 7 a year ago for a while it was doing great. For a few months now she has been having problems with it freezing. I thought it could be the hard drive needed to be formatted like it should be done every so often. So I went to reinstall and it froze. So I changed out the drive for another one I had and it went to the atipcie adapter and it BSOD. Deleted everything off the drive with Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit it still did the same thing. Ran memtest for 5 hours and no errors were found. This time It got hung up on 78% for the expanding windows file with 32bit. And it doesnt try to do anything else.

 

[WR2]

Hello tadroptopgirl;

What's the model of the Toshiba?
Can you test to see if Windows install smoothly to that HDD when it's attached to another system?

 

[tadroptopgirl]

It's a toshiba satellite a205 s4577

I'm going to install it from my desktop but i had another drive that had windows 7 and it bsod on atipcie driver so I am going to try it again and boot from the USB stick

 

[WR2]

Do you have Win7 Home Premium you can test?

 

[tadroptopgirl]

Nope just ultimate