Quote Originally Posted by itadakimasu View Post
I have a windows 7 pro flash drive that i made from a dell windows 7 dvd. It's worked great the few times I've used it and seems faster than installing from optical media.
I should also do that. For some reason my Win 7 Pro DVD reads really slowly. I suspected it contains near critical levels of read errors but who knows. I made a back-up of it, but it might indeed be nicer to get a usb stick large enough. Although it's not like I'm planning to install this thing three times anymore like I did after I built the computer and was encountering hardware troubles...