No option to install beside Vista

[canadianwriterman]

I'm in the process of installing Lucid on my daughter's Vista machine, but there is no option in the partitioner to install it beside Vista. I'm a bit nervous about manually partitioning Vista. Any advice? Thanks!

[oldfred]

From within Vista use the control panel admin tools to resize the Vista partition to make free space.

Resize windows partition info:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringWindows#Resizing%20a%20Windows%20Partiti on%20in%20Windows

You can use gparted but be aware of this:
In the GPartEd or QTPartEd Partition Editors the tick-box align to cylinders must NOT be ticked because Windows 7 and Vista partitions usually start in sector 2048 instead of the normal standard sector 63.

Then you can install to the free space you have created.

[canadianwriterman]

Thanks for the guidance, OldFred. Seems odd to me that all the instructions for installing beside Windows indicate that it is an option during the partitioning stage. I wonder why it isn't in this case?