Comment 45 for bug 441941

Confirmed on dell vostro 1320. No dell software, msdnaa windows seven and ubuntu 9.10. I tried legacy grub with the very same result.
I was thinking it could be stage 1.5 problem (the mbr itself perhaps was unaffected, windows would write to those 30kb or so following the mbr), but grub2 goes directly to stage 2 from what I've read. Still, about 8MB after mbr I've left unallocated, just to be on the safe side.
Also it wasn't every windows boot, happened after about 24hrs of using both windows and linux. I'm trying to track down windows service that would do that but with no result so far, temporary solution was installing grub2 to a flash drive and booting from usb.

Currently using grub 1 from gentoo and no problems there, but I'll post as soon as (if) anything shows up.