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New Computer :D - Isn't working too well

ok, I have a new computer. I built it myself.
It wont let me format the hard drive... so I can't load Windows onto it.
I know I'm using a forum that's not too entirely good at this kind of thing, but the one that is is not giving good answers either.

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here are the specs in case anyone might read this who knows about it:

Processor: AMD 8450 phenom x3
Mother Board: Biostar A770 A2+
RAM: four 2 GB sticks of RAM 800Mhz
Power supply: 500W
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

F8 button isn't really doing anything it is supposed to during startup.
typically you press F8 to boot from disk and then it does what it does and you can then format the disk.

On my Vista disk, which works perfectly fine it will show a blue screen of death before I ever would see the option to format.

On my old XP disk, it just goes on for hours saying setup is starting windows.

All the hardware seems to be in working order, but I can't for some reason format this hard drive... I'm not aware of any BIOS settings that would prevent this from working, but I've switched everything that makes sense to me...

help plz, anybody