Large files get corrupted during download / Copying from host drive freezes system

[zuzu]

Hi all

I had problems with WUBI 8.10 and large files (100 MB). I use Win XP and Ubuntu was installed with WUBI in a virtual partition on drive D. My computer is a HP Compaq 8510w.

At the beginning everything seemed fine. The problems occured when I wanted to download OpenFOAM-1.5 (AMD64, *.gtgz) from sourceforge.net (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=135709&package_id=148942&release_id=613491). When I downloaded the files with Firefox inside Ubuntu, the files were not downloaded completely and were corrupted. The same problem occured a few times when I wanted to download the files with Ubuntu running in a virtual machine (Virtualbox).

Then I tried to download the files with Windows and save them on the host drive D, boot Ubuntu and copy all files together to the virtual partition. This resulted in a freeze just before the end of the copy process, made a hard reboot necessary and killed my virtual partition (NTFS file system was not damaged).

Best regards
David

[Agostino Russo (ago)]

More information is needed, do you have an bottleneck in terms of disk space usage, memory, etc?

[zuzu (duffy-duck)]

I can't imagine that there is a bottleneck. I have 45 GB free disc space and wanted to created a 30GB virtual partition. Memory shouldn't be a problem (2GB).

Regards
david

[Agostino Russo (ago)]

Anything relevant in the log files?

[zuzu (duffy-duck)]

Unfortunately I don't have them anymore. But I tried to defragment my drive and install wubi again. So far everythings seems to be ok.