On 09/18/2012 02:14 AM, Robbie Smith wrote:
There are no extended partitions in UEFI. They're all primary partitions and you can have more than four.Due to the arrangement of the partitions, I don't think creating an Extended partition will work (they need to be the last one in the table, don't they?)
As to the rest of your saga, I, too, have a bricked Windows installation on my mother's machine. Fortunately, she is, for the most part, adapting well to Linux.