Unable to create ext4 partition in un-allocated space during Ubuntu 16.04.1 installa

Hello everyone,
I was trying to install Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS on a Lenovo ThinkPad laptop (2GB RAM, 2.3 GHz processor). I already have Windows installed with an un-allocated space of 258 GB after the Windows C: drive. During installation, I just used a part of the free space (around 120 GB) and partitioned it into three halves:
- 2 GB for swap
- 100 GB for /home and
- 18 GB for /

During installation, I got notified that the swap partition could not be created and the installation aborted. I restored all the free space using gparted and tried installing Ubuntu again, this time without creating a partition for swap. Again during installation, I got an error that ext4 partition could not be created. The installer aborted again...

sudo parted /dev/sda "print free"gives:

Code:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo parted /dev/sda "print free"
Model: ATA ST320LT020-9YG14 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 320GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
 1      32.3kB  1049kB  1016kB  primary
 2      1049kB  106MB   105MB   primary  ntfs         boot
 3      106MB   43.0GB  42.8GB  primary  ntfs
        43.0GB  320GB   277GB            Free Space

I had allocated all the free space into an extended partition and then created those three logical partitions. Gparted had failed to create the partitions. In the Ubuntu installer, there is no option to create an extended partition. It is done automatically. The presence of an extended partition was clearly visible in gparted when the installation via the Ubuntu installer had failed...

When starting gparted, I am getting this message: "The driver descriptor says the physical block size is 2048 bytes, but Linux says it is 512 bytes." I had chosen to "Ignore" it.

Gparted looks like this after an installation failure. Note that I had created these partitions by choosing "Something Else" in the Ubuntu installer:

http://ift.tt/2aRz9kF

I am not able to create ext4 partitions even using gparted. Any help would be appreciated...
Gramercy...

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Unable to create ext4 partition in un-allocated space during Ubuntu 16.04.1 installa