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Standard User zyborg47
(legend) Tue 17-Mar-26 09:53:40
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forgot how slow USB2 is


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Got some USB 2 flash drives from Amazon, 23GB integral, they are cheap and mainly only going to be used for files.
Anyway, I made a Windows 10 installation on one using Rufus, oh boy did it take a long time smile

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Standard User Taras
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Tue 17-Mar-26 10:25:51
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Re: forgot how slow USB2 is


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Got some USB 2 flash drives from Amazon, 23GB integral, they are cheap and mainly only going to be used for files.
Anyway, I made a Windows 10 installation on one using Rufus, oh boy did it take a long time smile

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Standard User zyborg47
(legend) Tue 17-Mar-26 11:50:37
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Re: forgot how slow USB2 is


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For files USB2 is fine for the most part and installing Windows from USB2 did not take that long to be honest.

3x32GB drives for a tenner.

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Standard User Banger
(legend) Tue 17-Mar-26 18:40:01
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Re: forgot how slow USB2 is


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I boot a USB2 drive once a week to backup an old Linux machine and boy does it take 5 minutes to boot to desktop on the pen drive. laugh

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Standard User zyborg47
(legend) Tue 17-Mar-26 23:11:46
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Re: forgot how slow USB2 is


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Optical disk is slower, I tried to install Windows via Blu-ray, LOL, that was fun.
Yet, that is what we used to do, before i had a PC they used floppies,

Adrian

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Standard User Banger
(legend) Tue 17-Mar-26 23:13:52
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I remember feeding my first PC with Windows 3.1 floppies to install it.

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Standard User billford
(elder) Wed 18-Mar-26 09:34:50
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Re: forgot how slow USB2 is


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My first installation of OS/2 came on 3.5" floppies... 23 of 'em crazy

The experience is burnt into my memory tongue
Standard User gomezz
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Wed 18-Mar-26 09:46:56
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Re: forgot how slow USB2 is


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Same here. Not helped by the PC having its Reset button bang next to the Disk Eject button which meant a couple of start-overs! blush

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Standard User zyborg47
(legend) Wed 18-Mar-26 10:39:34
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Oh dear, what a silly place to put a reset button.

I never installed Windows via floppy, I had to use a floppy to start the machine off and then installed the rest via CD, but that was it.,
Installed Amiga operating system via Floppy, but that is different.

The only problem I have with these flash drives is the colour of one of them is pink smile, oh and the case is not great, I don't think they would take too much rough handling, I thought with the connector being metal they would be a bit more robust.
They will do what I want.

Adrian

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Standard User DFScale
(experienced) Wed 18-Mar-26 10:51:44
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Re: forgot how slow USB2 is


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In reply to a post by billford:
My first installation of OS/2 came on 3.5" floppies... 23 of 'em crazy

The experience is burnt into my memory tongue


I was thinking to post similar, but I couldn't remember how many floppies, so it obviously was not burnt so deeply into my memory.
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