Dual Boot Vista/Ubuntu

[Karl F. Larsen]

Parijat Garg wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I recently got a laptop with a pre-installed vista. Since the partitioning
> was super-stupid as usual, I used gparted to resize the windows partition to
> create space for an ubuntu installation. The repartitioning and ubuntu
> installation went smoothly. Ubuntu started up fine too. I switched to Vista
> and that was running fine too so I thought things were fine.
>
> However, the next time I booted the system, I got Grub error 22. I used the
> Ubuntu live cd to boot the system. fdisk revealed that the new ubuntu
> partitions were missing.
>
> Is this a known issue? Is vista known to overwrite ext3 partitions or
> something? Is there any way to avoid this?
>
>
> Parijat
>
>   
    It sounds like you got the changes made but they were not saved. 
 From the LiveCD look with care at what is going on. Hope youi can 
figure it out. This is Not normal :-)


Karl