problem with installing windows on new harddrive help!!!

So my old harddrive crapped out on me few days ago. I ordered a similar harddrive from newegg and I recieved it yesterday. Today I installed it into my netbook which doesnt have a cd/dvd drive. So I had to put a windows 7 home premium 64bit file onto the thumb drive. Today I tried installing it by booting the instalation from the thumbdrive. However once I get to the point where I have to select a place to install my windows it has only one place, my newely installed harddrive. My harddrive is named "Disk 0 unallocated space", I'm not sure if its supposed to be like that. However I have a yellow little triangle on the bottom saying "windows cannot be installed to this disk". When I click on that i get a window saying "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. this computers hardware may not support booting to this disk. ensure that the disks controller is enabled in the computers bios menu". I went through the bios menu but I couldnt see anything about enabling harddrive, I did go in and change the primary boot to thumb drive, but I didnt see anytnig about enabling.

So please guys if someone can help me I'd be eternally grateful, I just want this thing to work. If you have any questions just post them here and I'll check tonight since I have to go to class now. If someone has run into the same problem and solved it please let me know.

When i click next and select the new harddrive it tells me " Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition. See the Setup log files for more information". I have a yellow sun like button that is for I believe for creating a partition and then I can choose size and apply but I'm not sure how much to set the size to.

when I use the default selected size which is like 300gb I get a new window saying " Failed to create a new partiton on the selected unsused space. (error 0x8007045d)

please anyone?

Buy a usb2 dvd drive. They're pretty cheap if you look around.

I had the same issue with my PC when I tried to install it from a flash drive the sollution to this issue is to unplug all usb devices including the flash drive so you see the problem, when this happened to me I was installing it on a new computer and havent ordered a optical drive yet soooo.