Sure. Make sure that your file table is correct and in proper order. That was my initial problem. I believe that I used cfdisk to show the partitions. Make sure that any extended partitions only contain logical drives. I had a logical drive somehow marked as a primary partition. Changing the bit allowed gparted to read the table correctly. It should throw a warning on such problems versus the silent approach, but I guess that doesn't really make it a bug. I'm looking at your partition table now and the first partition seems to just be unused (that 87megs), you can leave that. It is pretty normal to have slack or unallocated space at the beginning or ending of a drive, though 87 megs is kind of a large chunk. I'm guessing that grub at least works off the boot partition. First of all the windows logical volume manager is showing you all of your partitions and unallocated space. The fdisk from linux is only showing you partitions that are actually formatted and allocated. Thus the FAT partition at the end shows up. That 2.5 gig partition surely could be backed up to another partition can it not? I would suggest just trying to reduce the partitions at the end to 0 and simply deleting the whole extended partition, leaving just your dell recovery partition and the vista install intact. It will at least reduce the number of partitions that may be causing you problems. What does parted from the command line say? Overlapping partitions? Try opening the drive in cfdisk and doing a print (key P). It will tell you what the type of partition is and everything. Having that blank space with an extended partition following with more blank space and then a logical partition just might be compounding your issues. Why not make an extended partition to encompass everything after Vista and then break it into logical partitions? Three logical partitions, linux, swap, media. You can boot linux from any partition with grub or lilo. Cfdisk is probably going to really become your good friend here.
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