Hi guys!
So I thought to try what's Kali like in use, been using Backtrack 5 for a while now.
I have tried different methods and checked different things why I just can't install Kali. The problem is, everytime I try to install Kali the installation progress stops while copying files to hard drive! The strange thing is that the installation always stops when the process is excatly at 50% of copying files to the hard drive.
Just to be clear, I had Backtrack 5v3 installed on that same hard drive before I started to install Kali, but I dunno if it makes any difference.
Methods I have tried so far:
- Burning the ISO file to two different DVD disks (with two different programs also), no luck.
- Making a bootable USB stick from the ISO file (still freezes at 50% just like with DVD's).
- Checked the hard drive with Partition Wizard, removing all the partitions and creating them again with different file systems many times (this software was suggested at other forums for cases like I have).
- Tried to wipe all the sectors with Partition Wizard (writing 0-1 sectors to the whole hard drive).
- Checked out that there should be nothing wrong with the hard drive (guess it checks for bad sectors...?). Anyway it gave me zero "red" pieces, only green ones after running it for a long time, whatever operation that is.
- Tried to start the installation from live DVD.
Hmm, might have tried some other methods too and use the Google as much as it just can help but I found nothing. I lost my sleeps last night because I just tried all the different methods since I really want to get Kali installed!
Something says me it must have something to do with my hard drive (500Gb on the machine I tried to install Kali), but it worked perfectly fine with Backtrack installed on it at the very same day yesterday so dunno what could have broken it or anything. And it's always the 50% of installation when it says there's an error copying the rest of the files to the hard drive.
I'm kinda running out of ideas myself, so please if somebody wiser could have some more suggestions for my issue I'd be very thankful for all the suggestions!
Thank you in advance for everybody taking a look at this issue / post!