Installed New HP 256GB SSD
Installing Windows 8 from HP provided recovery USB device
Choose Custom installation
Select Drive 0 Unallocated space (only option available)
cursor spins for a couple minutes
Screen changes to "installing Windows" but does not show any progress copying files.
Then get "The installation was cancelled" and error message:
"Windows could not format a partition on disk 0. The error occurred while preparing the partition selected for installation. Error code:0x80070057"