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[Tom <question76237@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #76237 on nautilus in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+question/76237

    Status: Open => Answered

Tom proposed the following answer:
Ouch.  Yes it does look a little messed up but it's really difficult to
use the Vista partition editor, especially for linux partitions, which
it can't see or do anything with.

Do you have an Ubuntu cd?  Hopefully you can just put this in the cd/dvd-drive and boot up the computer.  Then choosing the option "Try Ubuntu without changes to the machine" should get you to a working ubuntu desktop, we call this a "LiveCd session", if it works.  Here's a guide if there's trouble getting to there
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootFromCD

The LiveCd sesion should have the partition editor but it only shows 1
physical drive at a time and i think you have 2 drives as far as linux
is concerned, perhaps 8 partitions in total!  Up at the top righ-hand
corner is a button labelled something like "/dev/sda (150Gb)" clicking
on that gets you the info about the other drive :)  The firefox on the
LiveCd should have picked up your internet connection and so you should
be able to get into here from there :)  So hopefully you can get the
info to us that way? (fingers crossed)

I have to go out for an hour or so but post the info here and we'll try to make sense of it later.
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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