GParted developer has confirmed this is an incompatibility between GParted and Vista that was fixed with release 0.4.4 see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379482#c37. The OP was using ubuntu 8.10 live cd which uses GParted version 3.8.0 https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/universe-bugs/2009-January/044941.html
GParted developer has confirmed this is an incompatibility between GParted and Vista that was fixed with release 0.4.4 see https:/ /bugzilla. gnome.org/ show_bug. cgi?id= 379482# c37. The OP was using ubuntu 8.10 live cd which uses GParted version 3.8.0 https:/ /lists. ubuntu. com/archives/ universe- bugs/2009- January/ 044941. html