Parted backport doesn't work for all? (WAS: Ubuntu killed my HD??)

[Bob D.]

On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 00:17 -0700, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> 
> does that mean the backport of the parted 1.6.12 patches  into
> Ubuntu's parted 1.6.9 is not working for everyone who dual boot?
> 

It hasn't worked for me.

There may be other issues I'm not aware of, but fdisk seems to show my
HD geometry is OK on my SCSI boot drive:
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Disk /dev/sda: 18.3 GB, 18351967232 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2231 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1        1305    10482381    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2   *        1306        2188     7092697+  83  Linux
/dev/sda3            2189        2231      345397+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5            2189        2231      345366   82  Linux swap
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Yet when I try to boot XP from this drive I get the "Filesystem type
unknown, partition type 0x7 chainloader +1" error. If I uninstall
Ubuntu, delete the Linux partitions, and replace the MBR I'm then able
to boot back into XP. This works every time.

I've since resized the NTFS partition to under 8GB and I still get the
error. I think this statement from Colin in bug 1566 sums up my
problems:

"...it's very difficult to get a system back to a reliably testable
state after experiencing the bug..."

If anyone has any ideas or suggestions, I'd love to hear them. I really
want to install Ubuntu but I have to be able to dual boot.

Bob