TOO SLOW USB FORMATTING

The rate you quoted works out to between 6 and 7MB/sec, which is a pretty decent speed for USB flash memory. A lot of flash memory is even slower than that. If that's not fast enough for you then then you'll have to look for a faster drive. For example:

http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=54556

Alternatively, you could use a portable hard drive instead of flash.

I have formatted a few USB's like (KINGSTON and APACER) and the speed was the same

You could always do a quick format, but like sminlal said thats normal for a flash drives. Plenty of the drives I have ehre are only 2MB/s write.

I have a Microcenter flash drive that writes at a nice 15MB/s though

I haven't had this problem when I was using Windows XP

Were you using the same flash drive with Windows XP, and did you do a FULL format there?

Yeah and a few others

What kind of flash drive is it? If it's an plain-jane drive I really don't see how it could format significantly faster on XP unless it was a quick format.

I don't know too, I've read somewhere that the Windows 7 formats the flash drives slower than the XP

http://forums.sandisk.com/t5/Cruzer-flash-drives-Solid-...