System Recovery on New Hard Drive Not Proceeding

Scenario: I've installed a new (blank) hard drive on my 2008 HP Pavilion dv3500. I need to install the factory image on this new drive in the original HP machine.
1. I am booting from the recovery disks I made (F9 from system startup menu) 
2. The first disk loads some files after which Recovery Manager opens up.
3. Without giving me any option other than to shut down, the Recovery Manager Wizard tells me:
"Recovery data is missing. Please use recovery media to restore the system."
Well, that's what I'm doing! - so why can't I click next have have the recovery manager install the factory image from the recovery disks I made?
4. Clicking "Finish" on wizard restarts the system
5. hitting ESC goes into Startup Menu again
6. F11 - System Recovery:
"BOOTMGR is missing
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart"
7. I've read all the documentation I can find. Looks like HP strongly prefers the use of the partitioned recovery drive on the original hard drive. Can't seem to find any information on how to recover using the recovery disks without Recovery Manager trying to access the recovery partition on the old drive -- which is not my scenario.
Summary: neither booting from recovery disk nor directly calling "System Recover" with F11 initiate the system recovery process from the recovery disks when a new drive replaced the older, smaller one.
Anyone see a step I'm missing here?

Try booting with a utilty cd to delete any partitions, create 1 partition & format hdd. I have had good results with the free Partition Wizard .Download the Bootable CD iso here .Get ImgBurn here to burn the image to cd.
After all operations are done with PW, boot from the Recovery Disks and try again.
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