hard drive not letting me partition

hey all.

i have windows vista ultimate.

so today i was going to install ubuntu on my computer.

so i went to computer management, and right-clicked my C: drive, went to the 'shrink volume' option and..... it wouldnt let me shrink it! i only have one other partition, and its a small 7.04GB partition used for my backups. i cant make anymore partitions off of my C: drive anymore, so i tried making one off of my backup partition and it let me do it!! what the fuck? is this microcock trying to rip me off?

Well you managed to avoid answering my question of how much free space is on your C partition quite elaborately. The information is even covered in your screenshot. Lol.

Anyways, it looks like you have only tried shrinking the partition with the Windows tool. Try shrinking it with the tool that comes on your favorite linux install CD or live CD. Maybe that will work.