Originally Posted by s_k

Here's something interesting;
When you're installing windows 7, you could run into the problem that every step takes an awful long time to load. Nothing happens or 5 to 10 minutes and all of a sudden stuf works again, until the next step. I've just been staring at 'setup is starting' for 10 minutes and I figured that I didn't want my whole setup to go that way, so I did some googling.
Turned out the solution is turning off your floppydrive in the bios (!).
People had similar problems with hooked up cardreaders and iPods.
Apparently 7 setup checks for stuff on every drive every now and then. Which is annoying.

So remember that; Slow Windows 7 setup? And I don't mean sluggish, I mean slow as in, nothing happens for long periods of time, no HDD action, no CD action; Turn off your drives with removable storage!