I find it weird that when I install Windows 7 on my computer it take a good 5 hours to install. But on the other hand I also tried to install Windows 7 on my Toshiba L305D Laptop, and it installed in 30 minutes. The weird thing is that my computer is way faster than my laptop.
Well, what is the speed of the processor in your laptop? Clock for clock, the Athlon X2 in your laptop is a full 50% faster than that old Pentium D you have.
Having said that, it still should not take 5 hours. Perhaps that SCSI drive....maybe Win 7 is not using the correct driver and the disk is performing at a crawling pace during the install? Are you suppling the correct driver during install, or just letting Win 7 run with what it has during install?
Why in the world are running a SCSI disk anyway?