NEW HD ON MY MACBOOK. CAN'T INSTALL OS X

I had to replace my HD on my MacBookPro. A new Seagate momentum 500gb 7200rpm was installed.
I did partitioned in 1 Volume.
When I tried to install OS X it gives me a failure notice "Install Failed. Mac OSX could not be installed in your computer. The installer could not copy the necessary support files. Clik restart to restart your computer and try installing again."
Have tried restart, but it is the same result.

thanks for the advise, but the partition and format was ok. the partition map scheme appears as Guid partition table. When I run the Disk Utility First Aid it shows everything is fine. I have created one volume only with the Mac OS Extender (Jorurnaled) format. The write status is Read/Write, the SMART status is verified. But when I try to install MAC OS X from the installation DVD it starts doing it, and suddenly when everything seems to be running ok, it just stops. Could it be that the DVD with the MAC OS X is corrupted? How can I verify that?? Also, is it better to have more than 1 volume in the partition?

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