Hp Pavillion Dv7 Recovery Disks

I really hope someone can help me out.
I have an old Hp Pavillion Dv7-1262 i bought in 2008. I had to restore it twice before and ordered the recovery disks from HP around 2010. The recovery disks come with Windows Vista Home Premium. They have worked perfectly before no matter the problem even when i bought a new hard drive.
Recently my laptop for some unknown reason stopped booting any software/operating system. Computer turns on but does not load Windows.
When i put the disks in Recovery Manager appears (does not give any other options other than loading the disk) but it stops almost half way through. The error message 1005 and does not let me put in the second disk out of the three.
Anyone know what it could be? Could it be the hard drive? or do the Recovery Disks need to be bought again? (there is no damage to them, have they run their expiration?)
If its the Hard Drive what kind should i get?
Thank you

Hi,
Please call HP technical support: 800-474-6836. If you live outside the US/Canada Region please click the link below to get the support number for your region.
http://www.hp.com/cgi-bin/hpsupport/index.pl
HP may charge you a small amount of money for P&H.
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[12:53:59.20] ----------------------------------------
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[12:53:59.20] ----------------------------------------
[12:53:59.20] rename unattend.org to unattend.or_
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[12:53:59.25] without Light Sensor..
[12:53:59.25] ----------------------------------------
[12:53:59.27] This is Restored image by SSRD [SSRD.flg]...
[12:53:59.28] ---------------------------------------------------------------------
[12:53:59.31] Start MIR Tweaks...
[12:53:59.34] ---------------------------------------------------------------------
[12:53:59.34] [MIR Tweaks] ...
[12:53:59.36] ---------------------------------------------------------------------
[12:53:59.39] Start Factory Update(s)...
[12:54:01.28] Start QFE Offline installation...
[12:54:03.96] PININST_OFF: PASSED...
[12:54:03.99] Type C:\System.sav\Logs\BBFindEr.log...
[12:54:04.01] Type C:\System.sav\Logs\BBFindE0.log...
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[12:54:04.04] Type C:\System.sav\Logs\BBFindEr.log...
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