HP Mini 200-4200 doesn´t give USB in the Boot Menu

Hello!
I have: HP Mini 200-4200, pr nr B3R47EA#ABU. Hard Disk died, received a new one and I was waitng for the USB info to come. I just received in time my USB stick with the Recovery info on it. (USB Recovery Stick is - 685741-034)
I followed the instructions, but in the Boot Menu Options, it didn´t give me an external disk. It gave me 3 options - Notebook Hard Disk, HP, Network Adapter.
I didn´t know what to do, and thought I´d go out of the system and ask for advice here. Pressed Esc. It then continued into Recovery Manager. So I thought, phew!, it will work out. Now however, it has gotten stuck for about 3hours (it can´t be thinking that long?) in this:
"Factory image recovery preparations
Did you receive any Supplemental Disc provided with the System Recovery Media? If yes, insert it now; otherwise, click Skip.
Please wait."
The USB stick has been inserted all this time. Now, after 3 h in the same screen ,I took it actually out for a sec and put it back, no change.
What´s going on?
(should I press the "skip" button?)
SOS!
while waiting for a reply, I shut the mini down and went again to BIOS (no idea what I´m doing - but in some post someone said they changed their boot order..went to look that)
In System Conf, Boot Order comes up as this: Notebook Hard Drive, USB DIskette on Key/Usb hard dis, Usb dc/dvd rom drive, !usb floppy (with an exclamation mark!!!) and Network adapter. The Floppy Boot in Boot Options was disabled...I enabled it...just in case.. no idea what it means. After that USB Floppy doesn´t have an "!" on it.
Should I change here something to get it to put USB up as an option? The order?
I have powered up my mini 3 times with the USB stick in one of the 3 slots each time...not sure it´s a great idea, but it just doesn´t give me the option to Boot Menu...???
Now with all enabled in the Boot order...still doesn´t come as an option.
People also talk about Legacy Mode....can´t find it anywhere in BIOS to change any setting?
Oh, and when I pop the USB in a slot to another computer, it starts reading it...but I´m too ignorant and scared to see what then happens, so I just took it out again.
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Boot using the option for "USB DIskette on Key/Usb hard disk". This should get you back to the same place as before. If it doesn't, disable the boot from USB floppy option and try again. Since you didn't receive a "Supplemental Disc" with your USB recovery media (and even if you did, you couldn't use it unless you have a USB CD/DVD drive), you will want to press "SKIP" when prompted. Next, just follow the prompts as needed and eventualy Windows will be installed.
Good luck and post back if you run into any other issues.
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