Partition drive is never happening

To start, sorry for my english, i will try and explain as good as i can.
I can't make Disk Utillity partition my former windows drive.. Its just saying in danish "making drive ready for partition disk" but it never happens..
The reason i had the drive splitted up into to, was because of a windows installation. (that also was pretty hard to make install)

Reformat the hard drive to Mac file system which is Mac OS Extended and Guid partition mapping.
If you must access with both Mac and Windows then you might try exFAT. Not doing anything with Windows myself I can be of no further help there.
Please remember that reformating will wipe all data off the disk drive so backup first.
Allan

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I downloaded both the 8.1 32-bit and 64-bit .iso's
I have my serial #'s
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Will Reset trash all the partitions and load the entire disk? (NOT what I want) .. or ..
Should I use the Install option? (which I assume will go through the partition manager) and allow me to clean install on C: only.
Lastly, if I have read correctly, there is no point in putting 64-bit on the T-60 (4 GB) as all you end up is 3 GB active anyway, so I should go back to 32-bit and avoid the 64-bit headaches?
Thanks!!!

Hello qudrcps,
About the ThinkPad T-60 can’t only recognize 3GB ram, please take a look the follow thread.
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/T61-and-prior-T-series-ThinkPad/T60P-Windows-7-64-bit-only-using-3-GB-of-RAM/td-p/377623
Intel Chipsets 945GM and 945PM do not support more than 3GB system memory (RAM), even when a 64-bit operating system is installed.
Please contact the manufacturer to confirm if the laptop support 4GB ram.
Please note: Since the website is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.
Please explain a bit about other requirements.
What do you mean about the physical disks 0,1? Do you have several disks?
About reset the Windows 8.1, please refer to the following article.
How to refresh, reset, or restore your PC
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-HK/windows-8/restore-refresh-reset-pc
How to perform a clean installation of Windows
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-HK/windows-8/clean-install
Best regards,
Fangzhou CHEN
Fangzhou CHEN
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