Cannot get OS X installed on new drive!

I have totally exhausted my bag of tricks. My MacBook slowed to a crawl suddenly and has become completely unusable. It's symptoms fit that of a bad hard drive. I have bought a new WD Blue 1TB and tried to do internet recovery several times. A few times it has hung up on the partitioning process. The times I had been able to successfully partition, I start the reinstallation process and leave it running. After a few days or so it makes no progress and the remaining time keeps growing. Okay.... So I come up with an OS X lion bootable DVD (It is a mid 2012 MacBook Pro and lion is what internet recovery tries to reinstall). I boot to it and I get a symbol with a strikethrough and the laptop turns off. I have came up with a couple different bootable mountain lion DVDs and it isn't detected as bootable media! What do I do next? I mean the laptop is 3 years old and I just can't believe this is all I am going to get out of it.... Any and all help/suggestions is very welcome and appreciated.

The MBP Retina 13" (which is what I assume you have) comes with a special build of OS X 10.8.1 installed. At the moment, an update to 10.8.2 is not available. Supposedly, Apple is working on one. Until it's released, you can't install FCP.
Can't update from 10.8.1 to 10.8.2: Apple Support Communities

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