Ok, so a few days ago, I installed the Vista Ultimate 64-bit OS.
Installation went fine, and it ran great, as I thought it should, I have
3 gigs of ram, and a dual core 2.2 GHZ processor. A few days later, it
started getting very slow, laggy, and unresponsive. I decided to just do
a clean install of the OS. While I was reinstalling, the installation
process went very, very slow. It took almost 3 hours to fully complete,
as opposed to the first time which took less than a hour. I decided to
try this method at least 3-4 more times. I got the same results. Then I
got my Ubuntu live cd out, I decided to install Ubuntu through out the
whole hard drive, to get rid of any trace of Vista that may reside on my
HDD. After this, I again did another clean install of Vista with the
same results.

It just confuses me as to why it would run splendidly for the first few
days, and then do this... Any ideas as to what the problem may be?


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Neodynamics

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Ok, so a few days ago, I installed the Vista Ultimate 64-bit OS.
Installation went fine, and it ran great, as I thought it should, I have
3 gigs of ram, and a dual core 2.2 GHZ processor. A few days later, it
started getting very slow, laggy, and unresponsive. I decided to just do
a clean install of the OS. While I was reinstalling, the installation
process went very, very slow. It took almost 3 hours to fully complete,
as opposed to the first time which took less than a hour. I decided to
try this method at least 3-4 more times. I got the same results. Then I
got my Ubuntu live cd out, I decided to install Ubuntu through out the
whole hard drive, to get rid of any trace of Vista that may reside on my
HDD. After this, I again did another clean install of Vista with the
same results.

It just confuses me as to why it would run splendidly for the first few
days, and then do this... Any ideas as to what the problem may be?


--
Neodynamics

How did the Ubuntu run? Did it run at full speed or did it also have
performance issues? If so, It may well be a hardware problem that you are
having...

"Nicolas" wrote:


"Neodynamics" schreef in bericht
...

Ok, so a few days ago, I installed the Vista Ultimate 64-bit OS.
Installation went fine, and it ran great, as I thought it should, I have
3 gigs of ram, and a dual core 2.2 GHZ processor. A few days later, it
started getting very slow, laggy, and unresponsive. I decided to just do
a clean install of the OS. While I was reinstalling, the installation
process went very, very slow. It took almost 3 hours to fully complete,
as opposed to the first time which took less than a hour. I decided to
try this method at least 3-4 more times. I got the same results. Then I
got my Ubuntu live cd out, I decided to install Ubuntu through out the
whole hard drive, to get rid of any trace of Vista that may reside on my
HDD. After this, I again did another clean install of Vista with the
same results.

It just confuses me as to why it would run splendidly for the first few
days, and then do this... Any ideas as to what the problem may be?


--
Neodynamics

How did the Ubuntu run? Did it run at full speed or did it also have
performance issues? If so, It may well be a hardware problem that you are
having...




Had a similar problem. First I cleanly installed Vista on empty hard drive.
After that I got a Fedora 11 installed with some partitions for it made.
After that reinstalled Vista(on the same partition previous was on, first on
HDD, boot-active). The second Windows installation was extremely slow.
Operation was also terrible - installed 23 updates in 2 hours, whereas the
graphics driver took 30 minutes to install.

I have overwritten by MBR with /dev/urandom and let Vista installer make its
own partition(well, the past installs have also done so). Now Vista installs
and works like a charm.

Perhaps Vista has something against Ext partitions?