If it's important to me, hard copy is the ONLY way to store it. I read and delete all my emails, eventually. The important ones get printed out and filed somewhere. :)

You leave your important emails on someone else's server? Ooooh! Not me. That's too much like... GASP! ...cloud computing. ;)

An update... WOO-HOO!

http://www.lockergnome.com/nocturnalslacker/2010/11/17/i-love-thunderbird-3-x/

I have become a bit disenchanted with Thunderbird/Lightning recently and was wondering if there are any other viable alternatives out there. I am looking specifically for a PIM app, but a decent email app w/ built in PIM would be OK, too.

What do you use?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

~Eric

The first thing I ask in situations like this is are you absolutely sure you burned the CD/DVD as a bootable image... not a data disk?

A hard disk can ONLY have 4 Primary partitions, one of which can be sub-divided into Extended partitions. From the looks of what you've described, you have:

Primary partition 1 - 103 GB - NTFS - VistaOS

Primary partition 2 - subdivided into three extended partitions:
Extended 1 - 64 GB - NTFS - Data (probably Vista backup or other use)
Extended 2 - 85 GB - ext4 - Linux (your Mint installation)
Extended 3 - 3.7 GB - swap - for use with Linux

Unallocated space - 64 GB - This can be partitioned and used for any purpose you'd like. A common storage partition accessible to both Vista and Mint might come in handy.

And as mfillpot says, gparted is a great little application. There is a graphic version (possibly already installed in Mint) in the Mint repos.

Luck!