Mac OS X Lion Install - HELP

I have the problem that the rocovery system can not be created during the lion install.
When I try to partioning with diskultity, my disc says: Partitioning failed with error:
The size of the partition can not be changed. Try to reduce the size of the change of the partition.
I have a black MacBook 2008 edition.
4 GB RAM
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 duo
250GB HD
Free Space on the HD: 200GB
Picture from the install(the text is in Norwegian).
Translated to English it sys:
Installation failed
Mac OS X could not be installed on your computer
Mac OS X can not be installed on the disk Macintosh HD, because it can not create a recovery system. Find more on http://www.apple.com/no/support/no-recovery
Click restart to return to the previous version of Mac OS X.
Need some help!!!
- Martin

What is the exact problem you are having? The support page sounds just like what you described.
Try these steps:
Make a full backup of your hard disk and all of its data (including your Boot Camp partition, which is not normally backed up by Time Machine), then erase your hard disk and create a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partition.
Reinstall Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard, then re-download the OS X Lion installer from the Mac App Store and retry your install.
If you use Boot Camp, you can run Boot Camp Assistant after installing OS X Lion to create a new Boot Camp partition, then restore the data from the backup you made of your previous Boot Camp partition.
You can also use the OS X Lion installer from the Mac App Store to create an external bootable drive, complete with a Recovery HD partition. See this article for more details. This approach will, at least, create a bootable drive with Recovery HD which you can carry with you in case you need to use Internet Restore or make use of the other utilities Recovery HD provides.

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