Installing windows 7 with usb 3 external disk drive crashes

So I was trying to install my windows 7 64bit onto my macbook pro. I bought an external Samsung CD/DVD RW drive to load the windows disk. However, halfway through the windows 7 install, it freezes at 65%. The most I could gather is that windows 7 doesn't have the drivers for the USB 3 ports on my mac, and therefore can't find the windows disk mid-install. Is there a way around this, maybe turning off the USB 3 abilities in some way?

nevermind turns out the install disk was flawed

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