Aimee the Great Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 System specs: Computer: FOXCONN MCP61M05CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (Brisbane, BH-G2) 2200 MHz (11.00x200.0) @ 2210 MHz (11.00x200.9) Motherboard: FOXCONN M61PMV Chipset: nVidia nForce 6100-405/430 Memory: 4096 MBytes @ 315 MHz, 5.0-5-5-15 - 2048 MB PC5300 DDR2-SDRAM - Kingston 2G-UDIMM - 2048 MB PC5300 DDR2-SDRAM - Kingston 2G-UDIMM Graphics: XFX GeForce 8400 GS nVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS (G86), 512 MB DDR2 SDRAM Drive: WDC WD5000AAKS-22A7B0, 488.4 GB, Serial ATA 3Gb/s Drive: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH20NS15, DVD+R DL Sound: nVIDIA MCP61 - High Definition Audio Controller Network: NVIDIA nForce 10/100 Mbps Ethernet OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Build 6002 OK, so a bit of background in case it helps: A few weeks ago, my computer got unplugged (I'm too poor to get a UPS ), and the hard drive developed a few bad sectors. One of those bad sectors ended up being right on a system file ... and you can guess what happened. I had to reinstall. Luckily, I did not lose any files (they were on a data partition). So the latest chkdsk/hard drive manufacturer diagnostic tool thingy came out just fine, but every time I try to install Paint.NET it would hang on me. First I would click through the options (e.g. desktop icon) and then it would hang during the actual installation and then turn grey, and then after a few minutes explorer.exe would start hanging and everything would get frozen up and I would have to hit the reset button. I downloaded the latest version in case it was due to a bad sector; no luck. Also, the second time I tried to install, it did this de-installation thing of the previous failed installation. But then it would hang again. Thanks for any help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarkut Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 This link shows the most common problems/solutions for re-installation difficulties: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 <Moved to Troubleshooting> Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aimee the Great Posted August 20, 2010 Author Share Posted August 20, 2010 Thanks. But I dont know what happened, but I ran another installer that uses the same software as Paint.NET, and it said something about deinstalling Paint.NET. So I saw that and tried installating PDN again and it worked. I think my computer is possessed by demons. Thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 A few weeks ago, my computer got unplugged (I'm too poor to get a UPS ), and the hard drive developed a few bad sectors If your system is corrupted, then you just need to get it fixed. Once the system is in an "undefined" state (or "decoherent" might be a better term), then there's no way to figure anything out using logic and reason. Even reinstalling won't matter if the hard drive is still physically wonky. Step 1. Fix it! Replace that hard drive. It's untrustworthy. Step 2. Come back to installing Paint.NET. It'll be much happier. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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