Clean Install Issue

So i just finished building my computer and went to Install Vista 64 bit.

The frist issue: It seems like its moving really really slow. Take minimum 30 secs to go from most screens. Is this usual?

Second Issue: I finally got to the 'Select Your Drive to install on' Page and i notice a warning saying drive may fail soon select other. I only have the one 500GB drive so i seleceted it anyway and it tells me "Windows could not create a partition on disk 0. The error occurrred while preparing the computer's system volume. Error Code: 0x80042453."

I also got a similar error last time but with code 80070057.

Is this an indicator of my HDD being dead/faulty? This is my frist solo build so please be easy.

Thanks in advanced

EDIT: System specs if needed...

Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P LGA 775
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale 3.16GHz LGA 775 65w
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST3500410AS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
Vid Card: MSI N260GTX-T2D896 OC GeForce GTX 260 896MB 448-bit GDDR3
2x2GB ram

Hi,

I just heard from Steve Bass that Seagate drives are having issues.
According to Seagate :

In some unique circumstances,the data on the hard drives may become inaccessible to the user when the host system is powered on.

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There is a firmware upgrade available - to see if you need one, download and run Seagate's Drive Detect.

http://support.seagate.com/kbimg/utils/drivedetect.exe

Also see here

Seagate Knowledge Base

Here is their email support

[email protected]

Phone Support
800 732-4283

Hope it helps

siw2