windows overwrote boot record

[Derek Broughton]

Karl Klinger wrote:

> It looks like your partition table is messed up.  The extended partition
> should always be sda4.  This is my fdisk -l output:
> 
Huh?  There's absolutely no reason that the extended partition needs to be
sda4.  You simply make any one of the four available primaries extended.  

I have _far_ more messed up partition tables than that :-)
-- 
derek