lost windows after ubuntu install

Asked by souprebel

Just installed Ubuntu on Hp entertainment laptop from live cd
had on it windows vista. partitioned it to half for each OS
all seemed to go well,updated to latest ubuntu
on restart there is no grub menu it starts in ubnuntu
It looks like it dropped/ overwrote? windows

from my terminal:

griffin@naked-singularities-coalescing:~$ cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
cat: /boot/grub/menu.lst: No such file or directory
griffin@naked-singularities-coalescing:~$ sudo fdisk -lu
[sudo] password for griffin:

Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000e6426

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 299433247 149715600 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 299433982 625141759 162853889 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 600567808 625141759 12286976 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 299433984 588257279 144411648 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 588259328 600557567 6149120 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order
griffin@naked-singularities-coalescing:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for griffin:

Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000e6426

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 18639 149715600 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 18639 38914 162853889 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 37384 38914 12286976 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 18639 36618 144411648 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 36618 37383 6149120 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Does this show that windows is gone? is it in the extended
I t is my son's computer... I love linux and no tears over MS but would like to use this to learn what we did wrong
I also looked for a menu.lst but it says no such file
Also installed grub customizer and got it, to at least show the grub menu but no windows listed there either
Any ideas? I am new but willing to learn.

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Best marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said :
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Yes Windows is gone ... ;-)

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souprebel (souprebel) said :
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Well that's a fine how do you do!
We figure we missed the question of which partition to write to after making the size of the partitions.
We will try again.
Thanks for the quick reply before I went to far! :}

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souprebel (souprebel) said :
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Thanks marcobra (Marco Braida), that solved my question.