Thanks for the responses,
I do not touch the computer during installation, and I have the 1tb drive removed. The recovery DVDs load fine, I get prompted about a full recovery and wiping the drive. That all works fine. When the installer is done, it asks you to hit ok and restarts the computer. This is where I start having problems.
When restarting, I get a message saying that windows did not start properly, and to go to recovery mode. I select recovery mode, and it takes me to a ramdisk (I think) option as the only one. After that, it goes back to the first recovery menu, leaving it in an endless loop. If I try to restart the computer, I get the message saying there is no boot disk.
I've done this countless times on other computers, I'm just not sure what the issue is. The BIOS does not even give me the SSD as a startup option, although it is listed under SATA properties.
My only other thought would be to reburn the recovery discs. But I'm not sure that's the problem