Acer aspire 5733 windows 7 intel core 13 inside, setupwas unable to create a new system partition orlocate an .......

i woke up today to see my laptop asking for a current password i entered
then it was asking
please input password for st9500325as
and nothing seems to be working
i tried to reboot the system and then the error message displayed in the title comes when i click next screen asking fro where do you want to install windows, i havent connected anything on the laptop and just
1 disc0 unallocated space 465.8gb
and i cant partition it also
i clicked on drive option and clicked on new( thets the only one i can click from the options) and it waited for some time as it is trying to do something and telling me failed to create new partition, what can i do. [laese explain in astep bt step
procedure,
i am not a genius on laptops or computer

Hi,
Quote: setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition.
It can be caused by corrupt partition table.
Boot from Windows installation media, press Shift + F10 at setup screen, and run chkdsk command to fix drive error.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd637756.aspx
Also, please remmember to mark your system partition as active using diskpart command, if you do not have a system reserved partition.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/71432-partition-mark-active.html
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