blue screen of death

Ok, I am not going to Vista bash coz that would take to long and I like keeping my language clean. I want to fix my friend's pc. It's a Dell Inspiron 6400 with 160gb hd. Vista being a piece of junk, my friend (which we'll call C) kept asking me to do stuff for her on my pc, and seeing how I was using linux half the time she asked for it on her pc to dual boot. So here's what I did: slotted in an ubuntu 7.04 64bit live cd and ran gparted: - resized the vista partition down by aprox 20gb - got rid of media direct - made the extended partition fill the rest of the space. - created a 10gb fat32 drive for data - created a 10gb ext3 drive for / - created a 1.9gb swap drive So linux works great, but here's the deal: Vista booted about 3 or 4 times with a funky "new hardware found" and asked to install. Now I am not sure what buttons got pressed seen as after i did my quick check of the OS a few other people used the pc. sometimes the booting time for vista would take ages. now, it shows the loading bar for 1.5s followed by the blue screen of death (totally unreadable seen as it quits after 0.2s) before rebooting. I have tried many of the vista repair options but nothing works, not even safe mode. however the startup repair utility boots. I can access all partitions from linux, so data is intact. Here's my partition table which i got from ubuntu fdisk: Any help would be great.

Well that much i gathered myself.
I managed to boot into vista twice after resizing the partition. when prompted about this "found new hardware" cr*p i first clicked yes, which proceeded to say it couldn't find the thing. so far so good. the next time i rebooted it told me the same thing and i just pressed ignore. then back to square one. on the other hand i did manage to back up outlook so that's something. However, C will have to find the vista reinstall dvd as she moved here recently and is probably in one of her boxes. IF she packed it of course. Seen as the pc has loads of stuff on it i would rather fix the damned thing than reinstall if possible.

UPDATE:
I got vista working with this "resizing partion" junk. It seems it doesn't have anything to do with linux, but perhaps the lack of mediadirect... In any case, there is an "unknown device" with all attributes "unknown" so I am left to speculate what it is.
The temporary fix is simply to ask vista to remind me later about this device.

Finally, after all this trouble, i went to shut down vista. What do i get? a screen saying it couldn't shut down because it was busy playing the logoff sound. C is lucky i was in a good mood and just laughed my head off. Had I been in a bad mood I'd have likely climbed the tallest tree on my compound and thrown it down with all my strength.

Anyway, back to this unknown device, any ideas (besides reinstalling)? I have already thrown in the installation disc, the driver dvd and nothing works.