Bootmgr missining after using recovery disks

I bought my laptop a dv7-4278nr a few months back, it was a month old when I got it. The day after I got it, the hard drive failed, so I was sent a new one, with the recovery disks. Once I go through recovery, and I put the 4th disk, the application and driver recovery DvD it takes like 1 minute, before it pops out. Then shuts off computer even though it says it will restart. I turn it bac on click finish, and restarts. It does boot mgr is missing. I downloaded a Windows 7 copy and made an iso of it, but when I go to download drivers on the hp website, most of the programs don't wor at all. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Create a Windows 7 Recovery CD. Download the ISO  below.
Windows 7 64bit
Use an app such as ImgBurn to burn the ISO to a CD - a guide on using ImgBurn to write an ISO to cd is Here. Once created, boot from it.
Select the Repair option.
Select "Command Prompt" and type in the following command.
Bootrec.exe /REBUILDBCD
If the command is successful, close the Command Prompt window.
Click “Startup Repair” to perform Windows Startup Repair. After doing these computer will reboot automatically.
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