how not to initialize HD

[Paul Cartwright]

On Sat July 31 2010, JB wrote:
/dev/sda1   *           1        4462    35840983+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            4463        4717     2048287+   e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)
/dev/sda3            4718       12162    59793409    5  Extended
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda5            4718        5961     9989120   83  Linux
/dev/sda6            5962        8094    17133291   83  Linux
/dev/sda7           11919       12162     1951744   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8            8095       11918    30716248+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
> Note that fdisk shows Extended partition as sda4, but cfdisk skips it. It
> is a matter of formatting the displays by both. The layouts were done by
> these Linux utilities.

/dev/sda5 is / and /dev/sda6 is /home. Can I just delete sda3 & sda5 without 
touching /home on sda6? or will deleting sda3 remove everything... If so, 
that wouldn't both me that much.
What i really want to end up with is XP on /dev/sda1 and Fedora on SOMETHING..


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