New Install Partitioning Issues

Ok I have installed 11.1 on my laptop at work with dual boot and everything is great. My partner on my team is installing it on an identical latptop and we are running into problems and the install fails. The problem lies in the partitioning area. The error reads that it cant set a partition type to 82 with the system error code of -1012. It seems to be adding various small partitions as we keep trying to install it. Does anyone have any suggestions.

You need to give far more details of the system you are installing it on but first thoughts are: have you defragged the disk and some people find it better to get Vista to free up space before trying to create Linux partitions.