unallocated disk space wont become logical, need to install linux

Hello. My friend has a Lenovo G480 laptop. She tried installing windows 7 on it, but for some reasons it couldn't detect any drives, so I installed a storage driver. After the installation finished, it shows Disk 1 Unallocated Space with Total Size of 0.0MB. Here are all the steps I've done:...

Hello, Disk Management shows Disk 0 (my old HDD) and Disk 1 (my new SSD, onto which I cloned the OEM, recovery, and boot partitions from the HDD). After some mucking about in Disk 0, Disk Manager shows an OEM partition, an unallocated area, then my D: logical drive which contains all my data....

I am a novice and am a bit confused. I had two Drives (Win7)C: with 252 GB and D:30GB plus 14.75GB for OEM Partition.(?) now i had shrink C: and got 101GB as unallocated space. I tried to create new simple volume from unallocated space but it gave me message "I have exceeded the number of...

Hello everyone, This is my first post here, and I'm hoping that I can find the answers I need with what I'm sure is a vastly knowledgeable and extremely cool crowd. So, here's what I'm trying to achieve. I have a Getac B300 laptop running W7Pro on a single partition. Through a rather...

As title states. I was just wondering if this is normal / why does it occur? I have added a second hard drive to my computer (1TB) and I'm trying to format it with a single logical partion. I've told Partiton Wizard to create a single partition but it always leaves 15.75MB unallocated at the...