Issue with dual booting

[Big Tone]

I just installed Mandrake 10.1 on a separate harddrive with Windows 2000 on my primary HD. Lilo was installed and Linux loaded up great. The problem is when I go to use Windows 2k everything runs SO slow. The actual loading of the OS is extremely slow. And then when I try to use anything that accesses the HD in W2k everything takes forever. I tried uninstalling lilo but everything still runs really slow. Anyone have any help from a linux newbie? I don't want to give it up but I really want to be able to run both OS's.

[spiders]

Dear


Win 2k being slow is not a problem with lilo neither is a problem caused by linux..


Check for solutions in Win 2k ..troubleshooting..like clearing up temp files.. and also stray processes.


Enjoy !

[Big Tone]

I'm actually pretty sure this isn't a windows issue, but windows being affected by the linux hard drive.

Paritioned and formatted D: to Linux
- Windows runs extremely slow

Partitioned and formated back to NTFS:
Windows ran fine again.

[spiders]

Dear

First tell me how many drives do you have for windows...

If the case is that u have only 2 drives...C and D..then when you install the Linux on the D drive.. obviously u store your previous windows data from D drive to the C primary.

Now just think when you are using a single primary partition, for the big OS like 2000....you will have problems because u need high free space on the primary.

So plan your partitions well.

Enjoy !!!

[woodidge]

Maybe windows is trying to check the linux drive or something... I had a problem instaling linux until I turned off DMA in the bios.. I can really only think of two options... one hide the linux drive from windows... (A partition tool such as partition magic, or windows partitioner should do the trick)

Or completely hide the drive in the bios... I mean it might be worth a shot??

[Big Tone]

Maybe windows is trying to check the linux drive or something...
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It sounds to me actually like what windows was doing... I could actually hear the hard drive a few times while windows was on.

For the other fellow,

I have 2 physical disk drives. A 40 Gig drive (C which I have my windows and all my files on. A 20 Gig (D Which I had installed linux on. No logical partitions, just the windows partition and then the linux hard drive.
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obviously u store your previous windows data from D drive to the C primary.
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I don't understand what this means.... The D drive is completely empty. And I have at least 30 gigs free on the C:

[apoorv_khurasia]

Since while installing Linux you must have moved some files onto Windows c:\. please defragment your drive
For running win smoothly>>>
1. Regularly delete temp, sys restore points etc.
2. Defrag the drive.

Nextly don't be a skeptic. Windows is not trying to "detect" linux hard drive. As far as I know, whenever an OS hits a filesys whcih it can't recognize it stops detecting it at once. To have a check see you hardware browser in win. It shows Linux as an unrecognized filesys, 100% free!!! So no need to hide it, its already hidden. Check your hard drive for bad sectors. They can cause trouble. And defragmentors reboot the system when they encounter a bad sector so be careful.

[jjlin]

Dear all,
I am 100% positive sure that this is neither hard drive bad sector problems nor Win2k defragment could remedy this! And I am 100% positive sure that it is caused by linux partitions which are not recognized by Win2k.

Here is how I test it.

IDE 1: Master: Linux, Slave: Linux /home
IDE 2: Master: CD-RW, Slave: Win2K

I built Win2K from scratch, so you can eliminate temp files, fragment files, and also stray processes issues that had mentioned in the above threads.

Un-plug power cord from hda and hdb, Win2k works very smooth without any lags. Plug hdb, ext3 partition, in and then it takes very long time to boot Win2K up and shows \device\ide\ideport0 not responds in Event log. After login to Win2K, it works very slow periodically since Win2k keep checking unknow HD in a period of time for you can verify your Event log of the above error message.

Re-format hdb into FAT32 filesystem, then the syndrome disappeared by itself. Re-format hdb to ext2, not surprisingly win2k runs slowly again. Disable hdb from BIOS, win2k still sees it and runs slowly. Only un-plug the power code, win2k then back to normal.

Boot from linux, there is no problems at all.

Still googling but no further answers yet. Please any other suggestions!!?? Thank you...

[bitinho]

Hi.

IDE 1: Master: Linux, Slave: Linux /home
IDE 2: Master: CD-RW, Slave: Win2K

I'm not shure, but I think that W* likes only IDE1 Master.

First, install W* and then Linux.

[drakebasher]

Still googling but no further answers yet. Please any other suggestions!!?? Thank you...

You didn't mention what bootloader you use. If you use Grub, maybe the 'hide <partition>' command would help?