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[Tom <question77500@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #77500 on grub in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+question/77500

    Status: Open => Answered

Tom proposed the following answer:
Yes, the LiveCd has gparted but the hard-drive install doesn't.  I guess
that when you're running Ubuntu from the hard-drive then most of the
partitions will be locked or difficult to alter.  I think the "Mount
Point" column has only just appeared because until you installed Ubuntu
none of those partitions had a "Mount Point" ;)

I'm sorry to hear about the Windows partition going strange like that.  Even with data-recovery techniques and tools it's going to be quite challenging to get that back :(
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery
It's quite likely that a local company could do the job but it's usually fairly expensive to recover Windows stuff :(  Have you got a proper Windows Cd?  Sometimes there's a recovery mode on there although i'm not sure how useful something like that would be.  I think it would be great if you could post a bug-report about what's happened to your Windows partition because it really shouldn't do that.  In most programs just click on the "Help" menu and select "Report a bug/problem" and the program will collect useful stats, like what libraries and other dependencies it has available, what version numbers and then it should let you look through that before sending the report off to bug-squad.  Bug-squad also need a brief summary of what the problem is and the report needs a title.  Just like in Answers it's best to keep all that as short as possible.  I couldn't find the "Report a problem" in Gparted's "Help" menu so it would just need a regular brief report like this
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+filebug
It's a pretty serious bug and now that you've said it i think this has occured to me before too so doubtless it needs to be reported.  Doing so tends to be one of the key ways we get improvements in linux, it's seen as being helpful rather than seen as complaining :)

Good luck with this!
Regards from
Tom :)

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