Windows is slow when Linux is on another disk

[markman]

It wasnt like this before when I had to boot up, but now whenever I run windows it takes 10 mins to load if the other disk, containing redhat7.2, is there.

I made a file of the mbr and wrote over the windows one, then rewrote the windows one (this worked before) but this time it doesnt work.

Anyone else have this problem?

[numtel]

Nope, never had that problem because of duel boot but I have had it happen and you just need to reinstall windows

[markman]

I just did and its still slow. The setup was slow too.

It only happens on the bootup. Once everything is up and running, it is normal.

[Gandalf_Grey_]

i timed mine (i am completely obsessed by a fast startup time) and excpulign th etime it takes to select windows on the boot loader the boot time was exactly the same as before linux. But i had them all on one disk which could have made a difference

[numtel]

Yeha, it used to just sit there and do nothing for a while, stay at the same status point but the little bar was still spinning around. Linux shouldnt have an effect on it.

[markman]

Also, windows doesnt show the E:\ drive (the linux drive) anymore in "my computer"....

It is definately slower; like 5 mins to load.....

[markman]

I disabled the drive and it works now - linux and win2k.

[Gandalf_Grey_]

Originally posted by markman
Also, windows doesnt show the E:\ drive (the linux drive) anymore in "my computer"....

Because the linux native is on an EXT2 partitioning scheme, that means that it isn't proprietary, MS obviously doens't like supporting stuff it doesn't own so they don't support reading from the linux swap, it just doesn't show up in windows, if you partition your hard drive, it won't show up as the full size it show up as the full size minus the size you stuck away.

Linux will read fat32/fat but NTFS is quite secure, a hard nut to crack

[markman]

how can I get linux to read hda1? do I mount it? step by step please

[Gandalf_Grey_]

it is a fat 32 right? if it is NTFS then you can't (NTFS is quite secure) anyways you would make a dir to hold th emount then go

mount - t vfat /dev/hda1 /whatever the hell your dir is called

[markman]

/whatever the hell your dir is called
what should it be?
is there a way to mount it at runtime so I dont have to every time i use it?

[Wynd]

Look in /etc/fstab and follow the format of the file systems already there to add a new one. It doesn't matter what you call the directory (I have mine as /windows for simplicity), but just make sure to unmount it first if you want to delete the folder, otherwise there goes Windows

[Gandalf_Grey_]

i made that mistake only once though Right now i have a NTFS file system with XP so i have a 2 or 3 gb Swap partition (not the same as the linux swap partition, thats just what i call it) it is a fat32 partition which i use to transfer files back and forth. Since i have a winmodem and not a linmodem i can't emulate it, so i download crap in windows then put it on the fat32 swap the goto linux, then get it.

[JoshT]

Make sure Windows is running the HDD is DMA mode, not PIO mode - check the IDE controller's properties in device manager.

[markman]

or maybe ill just use disks to get windows files so I dont accidentally delete anything

[markman]

Originally posted by Wynd
Look in /etc/fstab and follow the format of the file systems already there to add a new one. It doesn't matter what you call the directory (I have mine as /windows for simplicity), but just make sure to unmount it first if you want to delete the folder, otherwise there goes Windows

Bringing up an old thread, I still want to access a fat32 drive. However, Im worried about deleting windows. What exactly do you mean by this? What do I have to do to prevent deleting it?

[Zaei]

If you dont want to delete windows, just dont try to delete the directory that you mount the drive to. If you want to delete the dierctory at some future point, just remember to unmount the dirve first.

Z.