Microsoft + WD == bad

[Cerberus2k7]

Ok, so I installed a new mobo a while back and had very slow boot and install times, so after a while I get fed up and format. Still the same problem. Format again. Same thing. Swap out my old mobo that I know was working fine before. STILL SLOW! Install linux. Flys like a champ. Is there a certain ammount of times you can partition and format a hard drive before things start to not run properly? I've installed Mandrake 10 on the partition I had windows on before and there is no problems now, but when windows was on here, it was the slowest thing! Anyone have experience with this?

[Disputant]

Never had that problem before. Have you tried updating your chipset drivers in Windows. Windows update never does a very good job for me of finding the available updates so I go into the device manager and make them search for updates manually.

My WDs fly, I have a WD1200JB on my AMD rig.

[ChampsElysees]

I'd make sure that you have all the relevant Windows Updates and that the drivers are properly installed and such. Should you feel so compelled, you can re-install every driver. But I don't think the problem is with the WD hard drive...2 of my 3 computers have WDs as the boot HD and they work no problems