Harddrive issues

Long story short, OS failed to boot into windows with a message of BOOTMGR missing, recovery disc not working, ordered new recovery discs from HP. To cover, I ordered a new harddrive to replace it, Toshiba with same specs but a 1TB.
Ok installed harddrive and used recovery discs from HP but on restart still get error message of missing BOOTMGR. Made a new recovery disc for windows 7 64bit off internet and burned to a bootable CD. It boots up but found recovery doesn't list a OS system on hardrive. Did the hard restart more than once, checked hardrive install again, cables and connections. Ran another install from the HP recovery discs and also ran a bootable disc that was to repair issues with installing a new HHD and enabling the HHD to work correctly. Still nothing working. Get same message. Threw recovery manager got into command prompt and did a repair of the bootrec / nothing again. Checked directory and found at bottom of list it lists zero OS system. So how do I get my harddrive formatted to accept the OS install? Any ideas to try, I've read and tried all posts I could fine on this forum. thanks..
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Thanks for the reply, yes my harddrive failed and I installed a new one, but after using the HP recovery disc purchased though HP, computer showed a error screen in black saying bootmgr was missing.
Found out the HP discs partitioned the new harddrive, with windows on X:\ but was booting to C:\ which was just a recovery image. X drive wasn't complete, was missing all drivers and could not activate the drive or change drive letter to C. I didn't know how to do this in command prompt.
Fixed my issue with a windows 7 installation disc not the recovery discs that came from HP, hopefully they will work to reinstall all drivers to the laptop, but we will see. Used (repair my computer) on the installation disc and it repaired the bootmgr. thanks anyway......

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