Setup not working (strongly suspect issue is with partitioning)

pipsqueaker117

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As stated in the title, my windows 8 setup is not working. I'm trying to dual-boot the release preview ISO with my current win 7 (64 bit), but I'm having... difficulties. The problem seems to be with the partitioning. Here's what my Disk Management looks like before partitioning. Manage Before Partition.png
(The loading circle is the computer shrinking the c drive)
The thing partitions fine (well, at least without showing any error messages), and I'll be left with about 130 gig of unallocated space on the hard drive, showing a black bar on top.Allocated.png I right click on it, select 'new simple volume', and go through the setup, giving it the letter G and the tag windows 8. It then pops up on the disk manager and in the explorer. I noticed that the layout is listed as 'simple' but the type is actually listed as "dynamic" something I think could be the heart of the problem (this is actually true of all the drives). Untitled.png

Another thing I noticed was that not a single one of the drives was primary, unlike many those I've seen on youtube tutorials. I also tried creating a logical drive using cmd, but nothing was created. If it helps I'm using an hp-2000 with amd processor. The laptop came with four drives already installed, one of which I deleted (the backup) to ensure that the cap on disks (sorry if this is bad terminology) caused the problem. Anyways, I boot into the installation mode, go through the installer, balh blah blah... After I select custom and attempt to sselect the G drive the things says "windows 8 cannot be installed as the selected drive contains one or more dynamic elements" (or something t that effect, I don't exactly remember). I've tried it again and again, but no dice.
Any and all help is appreciated
-Pipsqueaker117
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 7 64 bit

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    8 Release Preview, 7 Home Premium
    System Manufacturer/Model
    ASUS K53SJ Notebook
    CPU
    CPU @ 2.10GHz
    Motherboard
    Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2310M Processor
    Memory
    DDR3 1333 MHz SDRAM, 2 x SO-DIMM socket for expansion up to 8 G SDRAM
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 520M with 1GB DDR3 VRAM
    Monitor(s) Displays
    15.6" 16:9 HD (1366x768) LED Backlight
    Hard Drives
    500GB 5400rpm/7200rpm
    Case
    Aluminum Blue
    Keyboard
    Built in
    Mouse
    HP 2.4 GHz Wireless Optical Mobile Mouse
    Other Info
    Qualcomm Atheros AR9002WB-1NG Wireless Network Adapter
    Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
    Microsoft Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapter
    Bluetooth Device (Personal Area Network)
Sadly with "dynamic disks", you cannot install another booting OS, as far as I know.
I have no idea how your partitions got to be that way instead of simple basic disks, but it seems to be the disk management of Windows 7, when confronted with a hidden system disk, and an OEM recovery partition, instead of creating an extended partition, sometimes sets all the volumes as dynamic.

This is a situation that has only one resolution that I know of - to back up the existing drives, wipe everything clean, and recreate simple basic primary partitions, and reload your existing system. Imaging utilities can be used for this backup - Acronis and Macrium are two that spring to mind. It does depend on having sufficient external storage to carry out this operation.

Sorry that there is no easier option.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP COMPAQ Presario CQ57
    CPU
    AMD E- 300 APU with Radion HD Graphics 1.30GHz
    Motherboard
    inbuilt
    Memory
    4GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI
    Sound Card
    High Definition Audio on-board
    Monitor(s) Displays
    notebook
    Screen Resolution
    1366x768
    Hard Drives
    Seagate ST9500325AS
    Google drive 15GB
    Skydrive 25GB
    BT Cloud
    PSU
    external 20v
    Case
    Laptop
    Cooling
    pretty good
    Keyboard
    inbuilt
    Mouse
    touchpad
    Internet Speed
    BT Infinity Unlimited - 80 up 20 down =70/16 really
    Browser
    Chrome Canary usually
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender and Malwarebytes
    Other Info
    no Start menu modifications
    Upgraded with no issues to 8.0 and to 8.1
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