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[Tom <question76926@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #76926 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/76926

Tom proposed the following answer:
The sda numbers are created in chronological order rather than the order
of position on the disk so that's fine :)

sda1 appears to be utilities.  Perhaps a recovery partition?
sda2 is where Windows is, as you know
sda3 appears to be about 3Gb (400 cylinders, ish) but i'm not clear what it's for.  Perhaps this is the recovery partition?

sda4 is an extended partition which means it contains all the other
partitions.  Drives can only have 3 primary and 1 extended partition but
this extended one can then contain quite a few "Logical" partitions).  I
think of it as a bucket containing the rest.

sda5 is the main Ubunt but it's too tiny for Ubuntu, this is why you're having troubles
sda6 is the linux-swap partition.  This only needs to be just over ram size, or perhaps anywhere up to as much as 2xram but no more than that.

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