Dead hard drive: 7200 RPM HDD compatible with a L500-19X Satellite?

Last night, i believe the HDD of my 2 and a half year old L500-19X Satellite died.  When I tried to boot, it hung up on the windows icon, and when I try rebooting, it asks me if I want to try some kind of boot recovery function...but when I go to that, it hangs up with only the background displayed. So there seems no way to access the Windows recover functions saved on the hard drive.  I do not have an external HDD case, so I can't really tell if the HDD is turning or not.
I bought a new HDD - it is a 500 GB 7200 RPM Seagate.  I used the Toshiba recovery disks, however, once the laptop uploaded all the data and tried to boot, it would always hang up, saying that it cannot complete windows installation, and I should try rebooting...which only results in it hanging again.  Desperate to have a functional computer, I also tried installing Ubuntu, but the Ubuntu installation also failed after a few minutes, giving me an error message saying the HDD is probably bad or the laser of the CD drive dirty (it appears to be clean).
My question is: could the problem be that I am using a 7200 RPM drive?  I checked the specs of the original drive, and it is only 5400 RPM.  Or is the new HDD probably defective? 
If anyone can think of anything else that would cause this problem, I would appreciate any tips you can give me!  I am *pretty* sure that the motherboard and the rest of the hardware are sound, since it seemed to operate fine when reading the backup DVDs and the Ubuntu DVD - it only had problems when trying to access the HDD.
Thanks!!

I thought it might use the advanced-format technology. But that's apparently not the case.
For others reading this thread:
There are horror stories restoring to such drives. In this one, the recovery discs failed half-way through the restore.
   Windows Update Fails After Cloning to New Advanced Format Hard Drive
We've seen problems here in the Toshiba forums too.
   After Restoring to New Hard Disk, No Windows Update - a Fix
-Jerry

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