Hard disk partition issue

Dear
I purchased Lenovo G580 one month before. The hard disk size is 750GB.The “C” itself 650GB. I tried to do the partition of250GB from Local disk C. After partition it shows unallocated space. But after that I could not make format for that unallocated Partition. During partitioning a pop up window shows that “The operation you selected will convert the selected basic disc to dynamic disc. If you convert the disk to dynamic, you will not be able to start installed operating systems from any volume on the disk (except the current boot volume). Are you sure you want to continue?”.
If I press “yes” the popup window show that “Dynamic disks are not supported by this operating system or server configuration. Dynamic disks are not supported on clusters”.Please check and give me a solution. I am using Windows 7 Home premium . here i attached the photos.
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Regards,
Shameer H
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It may be formatted in some Windows format that Macs cannot use. If there’s nothing on the drive that you want to save, reformat it with a Mac-friendly format. http://computers.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-format-your-macs-hard-drive--mac- 53986

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