Not sure where you are in the process.  Anyway,
In install, select Manual Partitioning.  I absolutely never do any of the other 
choices, not even for testing.
Highlight your hda4
Edit the partition.  (If any partition changes are needed, do those with CD 
Live Gparted, not! in install.)
In particular, to be safe, do not delete or new or create with the install 
built in partitioner.  I will, for testing.
It needs to be ext3 format
Its mount point needs to be 
/
which is the name of the root partition.  In Ubuntu, that's the only partition 
for files you need.
It needs to be selected for format.
You need a swap partition.  It will be automatically formatted.  That's O.K.  
Even if you have multiple Linux's on one system, triple or quad booted, only 
one swap is needed.  It should be at least as large as your memory, up to maybe 
twice as large.
After the partitioning menu, you will get another menu showing all the 
partitions.
As I remember, the / partition will have a slightly darker square on format.  I 
don't care for the ambiguous marking on this menu myself.  Grey on grey hardly 
evokes confidence.
Select "Next"
You should get a menu which will say that it is going to format hda4, and the 
swap.  
It will stop there and wait for you to review what the actions are.  No 
formatting has been done yet.
If you don't like what the menu says, select back which will take you back to 
partitioning, or cancel install even.
If it looks O.K., select next and it will tell you it's formatting hda4 and the 
swap.
Install should then proceed.
Now all this is from memory having done it a few dozen times.  The menus change 
slightly from one Ubuntu to the next, but that's what I remember.
Yes this whole business is frustrating, and yes they are trying to invent some 
ways around it, but it is technically complex.  Some of us (me) will prefer to 
do the "dirty work" ourselves.  For wider use of Linux, a method like Wubi may 
be easier.  I haven't seen any postings that people have had trouble with their 
XP systems after Wubi.  Sometimes Wubi doesn't seem to install because Wubi 
format doesn't complete; I wonder if those users had defragged XP first.
http://lifehacker.com/software/featured-windows-download/take-ubuntu-for-a-non+invasive-test-drive-with-wubi-258936.php
Cheers, Jerry

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