<div class="gmail_quote">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 </div>