Dualboot Ubuntu Vista

[RESmonkey]

I dualbooted a few months ago, and notice this problem everytime I
run Vista (Ubuntu is my main OS). Vista used to be superfast on my
laptop (new C2D 3G ram w/ dedicated card), but with this dualboot
it takes ages to click on this and get the computer to respond to my actions.

I hate this so much.... any ideas?

 

[mpilchfamily]

Reinstall vista. Dual booting isn't going to affect how well the OS runs. SO the initial install may not have gawn right. Possibly a driver issue.

 

[RESmonkey]

Before Ubuntu, Vista was A-okay.

 

[Atheus]

You're not running it in a VM are you? Because that would be truly hideous. What bootloader are you using?

 

[RESmonkey]

Grub (almost positive).

 

[RESmonkey]

bump?

 

[RESmonkey]

Could it have something to do with me mounting the volume under Ubuntu to view files?

 

[somethingsketchy]

Well it could be several things...

How is the drive partitioned?
How much space was given to your Ubuntu partition?
How much space was left for your current Vista partition?

One idea is it could be how you partitioned the drive. If you left a very small space left for your Vista partition, then you could be running into a paging issue where when your system goes to the virtual memory (and if there is not enough HDD space left) then the HDD paging will cause some problems for your system's responsiveness.

 

[RESmonkey]

Originally posted by: somethingsketchy
Well it could be several things...

How is the drive partitioned?
How much space was given to your Ubuntu partition?
How much space was left for your current Vista partition?

One idea is it could be how you partitioned the drive. If you left a very small space left for your Vista partition, then you could be running into a paging issue where when your system goes to the virtual memory (and if there is not enough HDD space left) then the HDD paging will cause some problems for your system's responsiveness.

How do I check?

 

[RESmonkey]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v64/resbt/helppp.jpg

 

[RESmonkey]

bump

 

[Atheus]

Well it looks like you're got two NTFS partitions there - is the small one a recovery partition for the OEM Vista? And the other your main partition? If so then you're okay for space, I guess (check anyway), but what are those warning signs next to them in Gparted? Did you resize the partitions with Gparted when you installed Ubuntu? I thought it couldn't do that. Did you defrag before you resized?

 

[RESmonkey]

^^What? I didn't do anything with Gparted. I used the Ubuntu livecd installer. And I didn't defrag before resize...was I supposed to?

I also didn't shrink/resize my vista partition. All I did was run the Ubuntu live CD and it did some stuff.

 

[RESmonkey]

bump

 

[Turbonium]

I'm running dual boot Vista/Ubuntu as well using GRUB, with no problems. I can take a screen for you if you want to see how my partitions are set up. Would that help?