hey ive been trying to install manjaro on my laptop which had ubuntu gnome on it before but it failed twice i then tried to install kubuntu and that failed while installing grub
its a asus laptop with a i3 5005u 4GB 1TB hdd
What install method and tools are you using ?
ive been using rufus
At a loss ? Rufus usually works well. No hardware centric errors or problems. Failing drives ect ?
not sure it just says fails to install grub when it gets to the end of the installer
Are you manually partitioning or letting the system installer do the partitioning for you.
If your hard drive has a GPT partition table, you will need to create what is called a Bios Boot partition. That usually happens automatically if you let the installer do it's own work, but if you're trying to dual boot, you may run into issues.
im not dual booting so that doesnt really matter and i userlly let it do it its self should i not?
Sourceforge iso download ? Double check your iso download for corrupted files ? update rufus ?
Alright. Are you booting off of UEFI or BIOS? Linux distros don't like UEFI. UEFI is doable, just complex.
Usually on your boot device menu, your USB drive will show up in 2 locations:
UEFI: <device name>
and
<device name>choosing the non-uefi version usually leads to better results.
It happens sometimes you run into a distro which doesnt work with GPT partitioning.
And often it is required for you to do some wierd linux magic inorder for it to work. I think i once found a guide where you installed a 3rd party grub of sorts after you allready had the OS installed but the boot manager ofc. failed. and then you booted once again on the installer USB and used that desktop to install the new boot loader.
cheers but it doesnt give much guidence for setting up the partitions which it seems to be failing on
Just tried installing it again so I got a photo of the error 
I found that the trickiest part of installing Manjaro was getting the iso working on usb.
Rufus is normally reliable method to create a usb in windows for most versions of Linux, but suggest you try using Opensuse Imagewriter as recommended in the Manjaro wiki
Writing to a USB Stick in Windows
Manjaro Wiki and forum have lot more information about installation that may help with other installation issues
for uefi you have to have a specific efi partition mounted at /boot/efi and a boot partition mounted at /boot and your main / partition along with swap if needed. grub will fail with some distros on some machines due to the way the planets are aligned and such.
i would try to manually make you partition layout as so
/boot/efi 100mb efi partition
/boot 1-2 gb
/ whatever you need
etc.
Im no expert but it might be a UEFI boot issue. Manually editing the instal is pretty easy. Delete all partitions and make one ext4 drive with mount point /
That should get you running with a current distro.
what file systems would the partitions be? like ext2 and ext3
can not remember off the top of my head but /boot/efi has to be a efi partition.
your hard drive also needs to be a gpt partition table for uefi.
might try and do a legacy boot to see if it will install that way.
ive just re tried installing it but when i look at the file systems avalible it doesnt come up with efi so what should i do it in?
the distro you are installing does not support uefi then.