

15 minutes later, I was running Windows 7. I disabled the FDD, rebooted Windows 7 from USB Key Disk, and the installation started to fly by. I noticed that within the BIOS, the option for a 1.44mb 3.5” Floppy Disk Drive was turned on – despite the fact the machine didn’t have a FDD. The machine in question was based on a Asus P5B Motherboard, and so I went into the BIOS to do some digging around. Thinking the issue was USB based, I burned Windows 7 to a DVD and tried booting from that. By slow, I mean minutes in between changing screen prompts. Whilst trying to install Windows 7 via USB Key Disk (find out how to install Windows 7 from USB Key Disk) I came across an odd and frustrating problem – once Windows 7 had booted into its setup routine, it went really, really, really slow.
