Thanks to this bug I have not been able to install Windows 7 and any linux in a straight forward way. I decided to do it the hard way instead. I first backed up my Windows 7 installation (oh yes, I purged all my Linux installs a few weeks ago, I had to , don’t ask, but I planned on coming back with Ubuntu 10.04). i used the latest version of trusty CloneZilla for this. After backing up of Windows I installed Ubuntu 10.04 on a logical partition and then later tried to restore the Windows partitions only to find out that I had screwed up the partitions. What i did was that during Linux installation process I created the partitions from scratch (as I could not see any thing, see the bug i mentioned)
The problem might have some thing to do with the fact that when we create partitions in Linux, they dont share boundries, but when Windows makes partitions, they do share some sort of boundaries. I am not entirely sure if it does cause some error, but it surely is not the same. Here is a dump from my fsdisk
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 13 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 13 21401 171798528 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 21401 38913 140666720+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5 21401 22185 6291456 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 * 22185 35239 104857600 83 Linux
If you notice, you will see that there are overlaps between Start and End cylinder, this is what Windows does to the drive, This is not the same in Linux.
Any who, after failing to recover windows from the already installed partition, I recovered my Windows installation and was able to get windows working back again (thanks to recovering the complete disk) and then I only recovered partitions for my linux machine. Infact this failed too first time as I didn’t pay attention and let it rewrite the MBR, so third time was the charm with recovering the whole disk of windows (from before i started installing Linux) and recovering the Linux partition from my recent install. Overall it took me a good part of a weekend to get every thing working. Now I just hope that they can resolve this bug soon. I am convinced that it is caused by Windows 7 (I have not had problems like this in a decade since I have used Linux/Windows)
As for Ubuntu 10.04, like usual there are so many new things and it’s gotten slicker. I did have one problem with the system. It seemed to install the Nvidia driver during the install process but could not activate them (even though it said they were active and not in use). A quick look in the forums suggested purging and re-installing the Nvidia drivers. Other than that, I am getting used to the windows controls on the top left instead of the top right, but thats a minor adjustment 
I hope I wont get the urge to tinker more in the next 6 months till next Ubuntu release.
