{"id":868,"date":"2012-08-12T20:41:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T00:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/?p=868"},"modified":"2013-06-16T15:40:06","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T19:40:06","slug":"fix-virtual-box-expanding-files-stuck-at-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/12\/fix-virtual-box-expanding-files-stuck-at-99\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix Virtual Box Expanding Files disk; stuck at 99%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just wanted to add some good information on using Virtual Box to install Windows 7 or Windows 8 (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/QUNGx3\">see my post here<\/a><\/strong> about installing Windows 8 into a virtual machine using Virtual Box.) Or any other OS for that matter. For more information about using Virtualization <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/R6jqlc\">check out this post<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>OK so the fix for the issue.<\/p>\n<p>While installing Windows 8 (or 7) or other Operating System you may run into the issue where you are booting from a virtual or real CD\/DVD and during the installation process it just &#8216;hangs&#8217; at the <em>&#8216;Expanding files&#8230;&#8217;<\/em> part of the install at the beginning. It will usually get to somewhere around 98%-99% and just hang there. Very aggravating. The solution is really simple!<\/p>\n<p>Shut down the machine. Then On the settings tab, go to storage and then under SATA Controller you&#8217;ll see you virtual hard drive. Remove that using the button remove attachment. Then on the IDE Controller there is a small button \u201cAdd Hard drive\u201d click that and locate you virtual hard drive you created earlier.<\/p>\n<p>By doing this your hard drive will come under the IDE Controller. This fix worked for me on a Windows 8 and Windows 7 installation, I kept getting stuck on expanding files but this worked. No fuss no muss and all installed and worked well and very fast!<\/p>\n<p>I hope this helps some.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just wanted to add some good information on using Virtual Box to install Windows 7 or Windows 8 (see my post here about installing Windows 8 into a virtual machine using Virtual Box.) Or any other OS for that matter. For more information about using Virtualization check out this post. OK so the fix for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/12\/fix-virtual-box-expanding-files-stuck-at-99\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fix Virtual Box Expanding Files disk; stuck at 99%&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,112,11,15,218],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":967,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}