Help with recovery on new hard drive

i have a g42 230us notebook which the hard drive read immenent failure please back up as soon as possible so hard drive is no good i purchased a new hard drive the exact one in notebook the wd3200bekt scorpio black,so i plugged it in and turn on pc , now i get a error message that reads no bootable device---insert boot disk and press any key
ive tried this with and without recovery disk and get same error message ,
notebook came with windows 7 now my question is do i need to install windows 7 os before i run recovery disk or is the recovery disk suppose to install windows 7 and features
please help

Hi,
1. The recovery disc set will rebuild the machine back to factory settings for you.
2. Probably you need to change the booting order from BIOS, you need to boot from optical drive first. To do this, reboot the machine and tap F10 to access to BIOS, chang boot order, hit F10 again to save and then recover the machine using the disc sẹt.
3. Remember to change the booting order back at the end.
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BH
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Hi,
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