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I'm not sure why anyone would want to install Win7 from a flash drive... the DVD install has been remarkably trouble free for me on about 20 laptops and 30 desktops. No problem identifying HW on 90% of the laptops, some going back to 2001. The only issues I had were with a fingerprint reader (had to go to mfg's site to get Win7 driver because of the new security model) and with a non-standard RAID controller on a desktop.

I have done upgrades both from within Windows and booting the DVD - not much difference but the install from within Windows was a little smoother.

Win7 even found drivers for printers and network cards which had no Win7 or even Vista drivers - it identified them by chipset and loaded a driver which worked. That included an Olympus P400 dye printer - that one runs better under Win7 than under XP even though it has not been supported in years.

I would just try running Setup in Windows from the DVD and see what happens - my guess is few if any problems.

<edit> I also question if a USB drive is faster than DVD - unless it is a very old DVD drive. I think the posted guide is for older machines that have problems with DVDs in general... or don't have a DVD. I loaded Win7 on a laptop with no DVD by copying the DVD to the laptop over the network.