Windows 7 installation hangs at "Completing Installation" – FIX

I have seen the following issue posted a few times now

directly after the first restart the installer hangs on “Completing Installation”

I have installed Windows 7 on all of my machines ( The RC 7100 build ) ranging form Netbooks to Quad-Core powerhouses with 8gigs of RAM.  Recently I ran into this issue and figured out what I was doing wrong after 2 failed attempts.

On the “Where do you want to install Windows” page I was just formatting the partition I wanted and clicking “Next”

THAT IS WHAT I DID WRONG!

I did the following and it was smooth sailing from there.

DO NOT just hit “Format”

“Delete” then “Allocate”

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