Laptop hard drive problems

I have a Toshiba Satellite P205-S7469 laptop with Vista. My hard drive was crashing and had to replace it. Bought a compatible Seagate drive. Installed it. Ran the Recovery Disk (still brand new-broke the seal on the disk). First disk runs ok. Asks for 2nd disk. I got an error message halfway thru the install - 10-FC12-0241. Contacted Toshiba via phone which told me that this is a hard drive error and that the drive was bad (a brand new drive!). Fine. I contacted the vendor who sent me another drive. Installed it. Repeated recovery disk process. During the 2nd disk I get a message "cannot read from the source file or disk" PREINST5.SWM. Options to re-try, skip, cancel. I skipped. Later received the error 10-FC06-0002. Shut down. Started over - repeated the process. This time I did not get the PREINST5.SWM error but got the 10-FC12-0241 error again. The odds of 2 hard drives in a row being bad are very high. Something else is wrong. I need help. Thanks. 

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