So I bought win7 and got two links for 32-bit and 64-bit win7 installations. I downloaded the 32-bit version, installed it and activated, but now after two years I'm migrating to new hardware and I want to know proper procedure to successfully migrate windows activation key from one machine to...
I've also had my run-in with this BSOD (I'm testing Cool'n'Quiet=Disabled since I have AMD processor), but from what I read on the wire - that in some cases setting PCI-E timing from 64 to 128 in BIOS can fix this BSOD (definitely not in all cases)...
UPDATE - I kept testing this issue and soon realised, that I had only Corsair GT (High Speed) USB Devices for initial testing, so I got some standard speed USB Devices and all move/copy operations from HDD to USB Devices went without a hitch, thus it seems that there's a problem with Windows 7...
I had somewhat similar problem with start-up BSODs and after testing my RAM with Memtest86+ 4.0, I quickly realised that one of my RAM modules was faulty. After I exchanged the RAM module the BSODs went away. I don't know if it's the same case, but you described very similar symptoms...
When I copy files from HDD to USB Device progress jumps from 0 to 90% fast (as it should), but then it stops and "freezes" on 90% and after a while (dependent on the size of file) the move/copy procedure finishes. In result it takes 30+ secs to copy a 200MB file instead of about 17 to 20...