On my PC I had vista. I then made it dual boot with Mandriva.
I then replaced Mandriva with Oracle Linux (long story) and then dual boot stopped working.
I tried to install Mint and everything stopped working.
I rescued vista (the PC works again!!!).
However I would like to use Linux and windows.
When I use Mint live drive and do sudo fdisk -l
I get
Code:
sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x70000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 63 128519 64228+ 6 FAT16
/dev/sda2 129024 21100543 10485760 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 * 21100544 497452724 238176090+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 497452786 976768064 239657639+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 497452788 497661569 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 497661633 976768064 239553216 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x75e28ca9
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 63 128519 64228+ 6 FAT16
/dev/sdb2 128520 21109409 10490445 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb3 * 21109410 497468789 238179690 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb4 497468851 1953523711 728027430+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 497468853 1235662257 369096702+ 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sdb6 1235662848 1953523711 358930432 83 Linux