Plus ca change. Still thinking about upgrading Ubuntu and still haven’t got the time. However, looking ahead, I’m trying to figure out partitions again.
Nip over to Psychocats for a few hints.
One of them is to run sudo fdisk -l in the terminal.

you@yourcomputer:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Password:

RESULT:

Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 255 2048256 12 Compaq diagnostics
/dev/hda2 * 256 3766 28202107+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda3 3767 5468 13671315 f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/hda4 5469 7296 14683410 83 Linux
/dev/hda5 3767 5386 13012618+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda6 5387 5468 658633+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

I didn’t realise, or had forgotten, that /dev/hda3 was in Windows (it’s actually XP).
This is a GParted image of the hard drive. Click for larger image

I still haven’t quite grasped what Extended means. If the above Extended partition is in winddows, can I use it for Ubuntu? Questions, questions, but the coming nights are long