I officially hate Vista =_-

So I decided to do a clean Ubuntu install today, went into the disk manager in Vista to delete my old Ubuntu partition (of course I could have also done that in the Ubuntu installer, but I was already in Windows anyway. Selected the partition then clicked "Delete Partition", BOOM a dozen of error messages, then programs start closing one by one and Windows crashes. So what did just happen? Windows deleted ALL my partitions including itself

 

Manipulating windows partitions from Linux distros is fine, I do it all the time and it always works flawlessly.
Manipulating Linux partitions from windows and not just any windows but Vista?! That is something even I wouldn't do, even if someone told me it works fine.

 

using partition program such as acronis, paragon on windows environment, this should be no problem, right?

 

I was using O&O Partition Manager but it didn't seem to recognize the Linux partition. I thought Windows would be able to handle a simple job like this but I guess not.

 

I guess it only on vista ?
xp not affected, right?

 

Don't know for sure, but i'm not going to find out

I really have a lot of space left now xD

 

cause I used acronis to handle osx and linux partition, fortunately no accident happened

 

I think any partition manager that supports ext3 will do the job fine.

 

I never know Windows could delete its own partition, maybe I should try before I format my PC

 

Maybe it got so pissed from bumping into Linux that it went postal.

 

wow Vista auto-suicided? lol

 

Sure, make an ext3 partition then try to delete it in Windows

 

I always use "Parted Magic" (a livecd Linux distribution for partition manipulation). Whether resizing, creating or deleting on my PC or others it has never failed me.

 

Never heard of that one before. I did hear about another one called GParted. I'm guessing they are similar

 

"GParted" is a GUI frontend for the partitioning application, Parted.

 

GParted looks really nice, i'm going to try that next time I need to do some partitioning.

 

me too suffereing from so many probs in vista..

 

There is a GParted Live CD that you can boot to. I dual boot Ubuntu and Vista 64 with no problems. I do recommend using Acronis True Image for keeping perfect images of your Windows partition. This way if you ever have a problem, you can just restore it.