dual boot windows + linux: installing windows 7 on first half of disk


Hello,

I want to install a dual boot of Windows 7 and Linux on my Sony Vaio
Laptop.
Below is the output from fdisk. The /dev/sd5 partition has its
partition type set
to 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT using fdisk's t option but actually contains
garbage.
I need to install Windows in partition /dev/sda5 without messing up
everything
else. That is, I do not windows to overwrite my Linux partition when
installing
via the recovery partition installed in /dev/sda1 presumably and when
the
installation is finished I want to still be able to boot both windows
on /dev/sda5
or linux on /dev/sda7. How should I proceed?

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 2048 35762175 17880064 27 Hidden NTFS
WinRE
/dev/sda2 * 35762176 35966975 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/
exFAT
/dev/sda3 35969022 625141759 294586369 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 35969024 328935423 146483200 7 HPFS/NTFS/
exFAT
/dev/sda6 328937472 340654079 5858304 82 Linux swap /
Solaris
/dev/sda7 340656128 625141759 142242816 83 Linux

Thank you for your help,

John Goche
.

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