Gray screen before change of hard drive. Changed hard drive and still gray.

I have already done the startup commands and I'm getting nothing. Have the install disc in and still nothing....bought a new sea gate 1tb hybrid hard drive from macupgradestore.com. Help me

I went to macupgradestore.com and went to my my version iMac Intel mid 2007 20 inch.
I clicked on upgrade my Mac and went to hard drives and chose the "HYBRID HARD DRIVE" and got the 1TB.
It's a 3.5" serial ATA-600 7200RPM.
I didn't think I could go wrong when this was one of the preferred stores from the Mac serial lookup site...
As far as the commands...before I changed the hard drive, it did nothing with the reinstall disc apple sent me.
After the hard drive replacement the commands still do nothing. I hear the disc inside the Mac spinning and making all those noises but nothing happens, just a bright white screen.
The only commands that do anything for me are the eject/f12 and command+option+R+P.
C at startup or any of the other commands do absolute nothing. Frustrated....

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