For some reason vista installs faster the second time, because the first time it tool 2 hours then my hard drive died and was replaced then It rreinstalled on the new drive in 25 minutes.
I think my old drive was breaking about a year ago because it was going really slow and chkdsk was never able to repailr much and defrag never worked. but I tend to want until something completely breaks before replacing it. how do you boot from a usb drive, it never works when I try?