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