Installation hangs at "creating user" Dual boot, dual HDD.

Hello,
I seem to be experiencing an installation hang at the point where the graphic interface says "creating user". I checked to make sure the MD5 hash was correct on both the download & burned iso disk. It could be due to me creating a encrypted home folder, but I am not sure. I am dual booting Windows 7 home premium & Zorin 9 Ultimate. I have the Windows OS on a separate internal HDD. Grub is controlling the boot environment. I should mention that I am overwriting a previous installation of Zorin on the targeted HDD for installation (12.04 I think, it was the last LTS version of Zorin Ultimate). I also made sure to burn the disk on the slowest speed, so this is why i was speculating that it was a possible problem with the encrypted home folder setup method. The context under the "creating user" field (where the command prompt can be shown/expanded says the following : Jul 18 16:17:01 zorin-os CRON[27333]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)

It has a few messages similar to this before the one i just posted. It looks like a time log of attempted commands, but I am not certain what the function of this string is. If anyone can help, I thank you for your time in advance. The OS looks great from what I see so far, hopefully I can get it sorted out with a little help.

Hi, you are the second person to report this problem - could you please PM AZorin and zorink - the Admins? Thanks!

By the way I have amended my dual boot instructions - please dual-boot the 'Matthew Moore' way:

Link to YouTube video here:

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6075

And no you should NEVER attempt to encrypt at boot time - if this resolves the issue, please report back before PM'ing Admins. Thanks!

Hello again ! ,
Sure thing, I will forward my installation problem as posted in this thread as a PM to Azorin & zorink(i'll edit it to be a little more concise and precise). I have, however, resolved the issue on my own. It appears my suspicions and your warnings were right, I should have never tried the encrypted home folder option during installation. I got it up and running fine after a few partition changes and a clean install. Sadly, I fixed the installation ,by starting over and installing as I normally would have, before I noticed your reply about the post that Mathew Moore did pertaining to the mbr edit video he created as an instructional video ;-(. What's even worse is, I actually had the last LTS Zorin OS set up that way with easybcd. I had even donated to their project a few years ago, and had completely forgotten about easybcd.I will tinker with that later on next week just to test it out. I must say, I am very much enjoying Zorin 9U. I was getting a little tired of the standard Ubuntu & Mint distro's. Zorin makes the transition for people in my family a little easier ,also , since they are generally Windows or Macintosh users. I have been customizing it further with great results. It actually impressed a couple of friends who have never even heard of Linux, especially the compiz cube and windows action settings. You guys did a great job on this distribution, kudos. Also, the dark blue and dark themes are awesome. It is a lot less stressfull on the eyes looking at the darker themes with a lighter text in the background. I'm gonna see if I can toy with the system audio alerts next >;-). Anyway, sorry for babbling on forever, but I will make it a point to PM Azorin & zorink with the original problem. BTW, the grub splash screen you guys/gals created is so much more aesthetically pleasing than the standard grub screen I am used to. Thanks for the help & TTYL.