Vista - ASUS Recovery DVD taking a long time to install

So basically it takes 4 hours to install it completely. It used to take 45 minutes to install. I've install it maybe 10 times as I have been switching to Windows and Linux back and forth on the same computer. Is there a way to get another one or fix it? I don't know if anyone can help me with this but I thought I could try.

Did you install Linux on its own partition and Vista on its own?

No I did not. I reformatted the hard drive when I installed Ubuntu.

Did you notice which part of the installation process takes more time than it should? BTW, if you want to run Vista and Ubuntu togetger, use vBox virtual partition. I run Vista as host with either Windows7 or Ubuntu as guest. That takes only a couple of minutes to boot. Here are some "How To" instructions: Tutorial: How to install Windows7 in a Virtual Partition « How-To Geek Forums And although I use the W7 example, the procedure for Ubuntu is the same.

On the recovery disk what happens normally is I insert disk 1 and it pops up a bunch of windows asking what I want to do. After that it installs and the disk pops out. I am told to insert the driver disc. That goes into a Command Prompt type window and that's what takes 4 hours.

Did you install any new hardware recently - especially a new disk, keyboard, mouse? During an installation you should anyhow unplug all external devices other than mouse and keyboard.

You know what? I did have a USB Mouse plugged in when I installed it. I just got it about a month ago but never installed Vista with it and I have it plugged in with AC Power Adapter. Could that be what caused it?

For comparison, I did the same thing on an HP Mediacenter PC and it took over 8 hours (!) to do the full restoration. Seemed an awfully long time to format a drive, expand an archive from CD, and write the contents to the drive.