Win 7 Ultra slow after Ubuntu installation

[camfay]

Hey there.

I'm new to the linux thing. I've just installed Ubunto 10.04 on my Dell Studio (Core i7, 8Gb RAM).

Whenever I boot Windows now, it takes AGES. Atleast about 10 minutes to be fully operational with decent speed of app loading. I know it's mentioned in the Ubuntu documentation that booting will slow "a little bit" but my 4-months old semi decent computer is now behaving a bit like my Commodore 64 used to when it was on tape drive

Any ideas how I can influence this?

Thanks for your help
Cameron.

[rokytnji]

I know it's mentioned in the Ubuntu documentation that booting will slow "a little bit

Just curious. Is this a Traditional Install with Ubuntu on it's own Partition or a Wubi install. (Ubuntu installed inside of Windows)

A traditional Install should not effect Windows 7 at all. (But ya never know with the firmware these new computers come with)

[camfay]

Just curious. Is this a Traditional Install with Ubuntu on it's own Partition or a Wubi install. (Ubuntu installed inside of Windows)

Hi Rokytnyji

As far as I am aware it's a separate install with separate partition. I installed it by burning an .iso to CD, and booting from CD. I had Win 7 already installed. The place I downloaded Ubuntu from the official Ubuntu.com site.

Win 7 wasn't particularly quick beforehand, but is just quite a bit slower now. Once it is fully booted, it works fine. But just takes ages.

Tks.

[devils casper]

If both OSes have been installed in separate partitions, Linux can not affect performance of Windows OS. How much space did you allocate to main partition ( C: drive ) of Windows OS?

Lets check partition structure of your Hard disk first.
Execute this in Terminal :

sudo fdisk -l
df -h

Post output here.

* Its small L in fdisk -l.

[rokytnji]

Kewl. Now that we have Wubi out of the way (Ubuntu inside Of Windows 7)

Then Ubuntu should not be messing with your Windows 7 Installation.

If me. And I aint a Windows 7 expert but my Wife has me do Maint. on her Windows 7 Acer Laptop and Vista Acer Deskktop.

When they slow down. I download and use CCleaner

for cleaning out cruft in Windows. Also I use Smart Defrag from Iobit
to defrag and compress her files also.

I NEVER USE A REGISTRY CLEANER OF ANY KIND ON WINDOWS. It breaks more than it fixes Windows.

Last thing. When you installed Ubuntu. You had to shrink the Windows 7 partition to make a Linux Partition to install Ubuntu to.

Did you Defrag Windows BEFORE you shrunk the drive to make the Ubuntu Partition. Because Windows scatters it's files all over the drive. And if you shrunk Windows 7 without Defragging till all Windows 7 files were to the far left in Defrag Window (in Windows 7 Defrag tool). You might have deleted some Windows 7 files when you shrunk the Drive,
Which could be why Windows 7 is loading slowly now.

Howdy DC.

[camfay]

Did you Defrag Windows BEFORE you shrunk the drive to make the Ubuntu Partition.

LOL no I didn't...this could be it? Bugger!

[camfay]

If both OSes have been installed in separate partitions, Linux can not affect performance of Windows OS. How much space did you allocate to main partition ( C: drive ) of Windows OS?

Lets check partition structure of your Hard disk first.
Execute this in Terminal :

sudo fdisk -l
df -h

Post output here.

* Its small L in fdisk -l.

Here's the output:

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0a990db1

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 5 40131 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 6 1918 15360000 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 1918 33456 253331480 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 33456 60802 219652097 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 33456 47162 110089358 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 47162 60242 105064448 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 60242 60802 4496384 82 Linux swap / Solaris

AND..

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 99G 5.3G 89G 6% /
none 1.5G 356K 1.5G 1% /dev
none 1.5G 1.4M 1.5G 1% /dev/shm
none 1.5G 276K 1.5G 1% /var/run
none 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /var/lock
none 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /lib/init/rw
/home/cameron/.Private
99G 5.3G 89G 6% /home/cameron
/dev/sr0 6.2G 6.2G 0 100% /media/TOYSTORY1


Thanks!

[rokytnji]

LOL no I didn't...this could be it

Just in case for reference.

What are the system recovery options in Windows 7?

[devils casper]

If you are using Linux tools then there is no need to defrag NTFS partition manually before resizing. Linux tools take care of defrag.

Have you tried CCleaner? I would suggest you to check Windows OS Forum for this problem.

[Infernochaos]

I'm no expert at these kind of stuff but my guess would be that the memory adresses that are retrieving are sloppy?