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"Free space" and "unallocated space" on HD - what can I do with this?
Earlier today I tried to dual boot my hard drive to run both Windows 7 and Ubuntu. I wasn't able to do it properly (I must have done some wrong steps, I'm new to all this stuff and didn't realize how complicated partitioning was... ah.) and now my hard drive is left with "free space" (15GB, I think its an extended partition) and "unallocated space" (38GB, not sure what kind of partition it is) alongside my C drive (primary), Lenovo Recovery partition (primary), and something called "SYSTEM_DRV" (primary).
I think the "free space" is extended because when I try and create a new volume with the "unallocated space", I'm denied and a window pops up saying I have too many primary partitions.
The option to 'delete partition' for the "free space" is available but if I select it, a warning window pops up (included in thumbnail below).
What I'd like to do is reformat the "free space" and "unallocated space" in some way that it can be used/merged to the C drive.
I've included a screen cap of my HD in Disk Manager below.