Questions with 8.04

[crow_se]

Hello all
A couple of questions.
I have downloaded Ubuntu 8.04, burnt the iso to a cd and rebooted, selecting to try Ubuntu without changes to my pc. The cd boots into Ubuntu ok, but if I select from the top level menus then a drop down menu appears and that is it, my mouse cursor will move but clicking on a selection does no good, neither does pressing any keys on the keyboard. I have to do a full reboot. This does not happen with Ubuntu 7.0.4 live disk, Linux Mint 3.0 Cassandra or SUSE Linux 10 but does with Linux Mint 4.
I tried Ubuntu 7.0.4 a while ago but had problems with ndiswrapper for my wireless internet connection. I then tried Linux Mint 3.0 which had ndiswrapper built in and sorted out the connection. This was installed onto my main HDD, Maxtor 80Gb. I set it to dual boot with XP Pro, 50 Gb for XP, the rest split for a swap partition and the Linux partition. When I tried to boot Linux, using the Linux bootloader, however, at least half of the time the boot hung and I had to restart the pc. I got fed up with this so I uninstalled Linux, deleted the partitions and extended the XP partition to cover the whole disk.
From the above, I am reluctant to install Linux again if I am to have the same problems. Can anyone advise ?
System:
Athlon XP2800
Motherboard MSI KT6V-LSR (MS-7021)
1 Gb SDRAM
Radeon 9600 XT, 256 Mb RAM

TIA

[Vadi]

The CD drive isn't as fast as your harddrive, so the menu being slow to open should be normal. I'd recommend trying 8.04 anyhow, it'll be much better installed.

[Mystix]

The Live CD does run a bit slower than an installed version of Ubuntu, may not make a difference but did you burn the iso at 4X, if I remember correctly I had to go back and slow the burn time down before I got a CD that would function correctly.

[crow_se]

Thanks for the replies.
I reburned the iso at the slowest speed my burner and software would allow, 8x. Now if I boot from the live disk I can start Firefox, but after about a minute the same problem occurs in that the mouse has no effect on any menu. I dont think that it is a cd speed problem because I have no problems for the first minute, and waiting up to a quarter of an hour has no effect, the menus cannot be selected on.
If I install using wubi, how easy is it to completely remove Ubuntu in case I still have the same problem? Come to that, how safe is installation using Wubi? I am very reluctant to partition my HDD and install for the reasons in my first message.

[Vadi]

Wubi is very easy to install (has a very clear menu and such) and easy to remove - it can be found in the windows list of the "add/remove programs" where you can uninstall it from.

[Qwerty_]

Wubi is fantastic and has blown my mind away.

[muteXe]

installing it from windows just seems wrong to me

[Vadi]

Better than nothing