Having trouble dual booting ubuntu and windows vista

[Ildanach]

I'm installing Ubuntu 10.04 for a friend, dual booting it with windows vista. The installation was going just fine up until the 4th step- partitioning the drives. After designating space for vista and ubuntu and running it, it popped up the window and displayed 0%... for the next hour. After looking around on ubuntu forums for a solution, I tried manually partitioning the drives in vista. Vista wouldn't let me, saying that access was denied. I tried using gparted next, which had an error with it as well. Does anyone know what i can do to work around this?

[galfly]

You might have accidentally deleted vista paging partition, vista uses a separate partition, I'm guessing it would be around 2-3% of hard disk space, usually seen at the right hand side at ubuntu partitioning page.

I'd recommend fixing vista first and re-installing ubuntu without messing with the paging partition

maya--

[Ildanach]

I don't seem to be finding a paging partition, however, there is another partition that does use only 2% of the hard drive, could this be it?

[oldfred]

Resize Vista partition
If problems, try disabling system restore, pagefile, (in advanced settings in computer properties) and hibernate option (in power management). Don’t forget to turn them on back later.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/working-around-windows-vistas-shrink-volume-inadequacy-problems/
shrink the primary partition from the Windows MMC.

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

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Lucid#Dual-Booting_Windows_and_Ubuntu

[Ildanach]

Thank you so much! Those tutorials worked perfectly. It looks great now.