Issues with Hard Drive, OS

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Strikeout711

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Hey all. After finding out that my previous hard drive was corrupted, I went out and bought a 1.5tb Seagate Barracuda. I put it in my computer, plugged it in, and then tried to download my Vista Home Premium 64bit but found that I was unable to. After going through half the setup, I reached the point where it asked where I wanted to install windows. My only option was "Disk 0 Partition 1". With that selected, I hit next and I got the following error message: "Windows could not format a partition on disk 0. The error occurred while preparing the partition selected for installation. Error code: 0x80070057." After this, the installation was cancelled. It's extremely frustrating because this is a brand new hard drive, and I can't get it to work. Any help would be appreciated.
 

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Hi Strikeout711,

Can you fill in your system specs please. It could be a limitation of your BIOS not being able to see a drive of that size as one partition - to that end, have you tried creating a smaller partition on the drive during setup? Click on Drive Options (advanced) at the point indicated in the appropriate Tutorial.

Step 13 http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/68767-clean-install-upgrade-vista.html
Step 10 http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/117366-clean-install-full-version-vista.html

Select New and adjust the partition size as required. You should then be able to install Vista into this partition.

It is also possible that the problem is a driver problem, in which case you will need to click on Load Driver at the appropriate point indicated above. You will need to provide the appropriate driver(s) on removeable media, so we will need your system specs (specifically the make and model number of your motherboard) so that these can be located.
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dwarf Dwf/11/2012 r09/2013
    CPU
    Intel Core-i5-3570K 4-core @ 3.4GHz (Ivy Bridge) (OC 4.2GHz)
    Motherboard
    ASRock Z77 Extreme4-M
    Memory
    4 x 4GB DDR3-1600 Corsair Vengeance CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B (16GB)
    Graphics Card(s)
    MSI GeForce GTX770 Gaming OC 2GB
    Sound Card
    Realtek High Definition on board solution (ALC 898)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    ViewSonic VA1912w Widescreen
    Screen Resolution
    1440x900
    Hard Drives
    OCZ Agility 3 120GB SATA III x2 (RAID 0)
    Samsung HD501LJ 500GB SATA II x2
    Hitachi HDS721010CLA332 1TB SATA II
    Iomega 1.5TB Ext USB 2.0
    WD 2.0TB Ext USB 3.0
    PSU
    XFX Pro Series 850W Semi-Modular
    Case
    Gigabyte IF233
    Cooling
    1 x 120mm Front Inlet 1 x 120mm Rear Exhaust
    Keyboard
    Microsoft Comfort Curve Keyboard 3000 (USB)
    Mouse
    Microsoft Comfort Mouse 3000 for Business (USB)
    Internet Speed
    NetGear DG834Gv3 ADSL Modem/Router (Ethernet) ~4.0 Mb/s (O2)
    Other Info
    Optical Drive: HL-DT-ST BD-RE BH10LS30 SATA Bluray
    Lexmark S305 Printer/Scanner/Copier (USB)
    WEI Score: 8.1/8.1/8.5/8.5/8.25
    Asus Eee PC 1011PX Netbook (Windows 7 x86 Starter)
Thanks for the reply. I'll try what you said in a sec. System specs:
RAM: Corsair dual channel 4096mb PC6400 DDR2 800MHz
Video Card: EVGA GeForce 9600 GSO Dual slot edition 768mb.
Memory:1.5tb seagate barracuda 7200RPM 32mb cache.
Motherboard:EVGA nforce 780i SLI
Power:450 watt.

EDIT:When I get to the screen to change the size, the "New" part is unclickable. I'm tempted to press delete, but I don't want to mess anything up.
 

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