Hp recovery disks not working- will not reboot

I have an hp envy ultrabook touchsmart model 14-k033TU. About a week ago the laptop decided to shut down and perform an update. It was bed time so I let it do it's thing. During then update it may have switched off as it was not plugged in ?ran out of power. When I next tried to switch it on a blue screen appeared with a sad emoticon with the message "your pc ran into a problem and needs to restart. We're just collectinng some error info...". I cannot read the source of the error as it flashes by too quickly. It alternates between this blue screen and a black one that says "preparing automatic repair".
I called hp after trying a few solutions online, several of which weren't applicable as it will not start normally. It just loops between the two screens. They sent me some recovery disks but I had to purchase a usb cd/dvd drive to use these. I put the first disk in and nothing happened. I pressed esc and tried to boot from disk as someone suggested but it did not work. The loop continues. I am not sure what I else I can try. I guess it's deeply corrupted now. Any ideas?

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