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I have the following partitions:

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When trying to install Ubuntu, it failed to read any of them and said "unusable space".

The same from Kubuntu, Arch Linux and OpenSUSE.

I tried to reinstall Windows and restructure my partitions, but I could not delete all of them and I am unsure if I should delete the 39MB "OEM" one and the 100MB "System reserved". I am a novice, so please keep any advice at a minimum knowledge level.

From what others tell me, the primary partition should be C:\ and that might be part of the fault

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Gareth
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andrei
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(People please read the image more carefully.)

The OP's real problem is that the disk is Dynamic instead of basic. This is a M$ proprietary format that builds on GPT. For OSes that do not support it the whole disk is seen filled with a big data partition and a small one for metadata.

The OP should first convert the disk to a Basic one in GPT and then you should be able to create a partition in the unused space with your Linux installer.

If your BIOS does not support GPT, you should convert the disk to use MBR partition table and convert partition D: to an logic partition in an extended partition. Then the extended partition can be expanded to include the unused space and another logic partition for Linux.

billc.cn
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This was my answer http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php, made a boot cd and completely re-wrote my partition table. now i have 4 primary partitions and i was able to install windows and ubuntu in parallel

andrei
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Just run Ubuntu 14.04 from a Live CD

Open the terminal and run the following commands - 

sudo fixparts /dev/sda

and then press the key w

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Ashish
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