[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"Did you ever consider it may be your hardware?"

That machine is partitioned to boot into several OSes. It ain't the hardware.

[VeniVidiVici]

That machine is partitioned to boot into several OSes. It ain't the hardware.

LOL! And yet Win7 crashes when you're installing it and takes an inordinate amount of time to delete a 4k file.

Perhaps you need to look over your boot and system partitions, and the filesystems, for each of your "several OSes". And maybe a NIC or two. Using 10Mb NICs? 16 color cards? Uncle Joe's fandacular scanner complete with a card and drivers?