HPE Desktop New Hard Drive/No Bootable Drive

After receiving a "Hard Drive Failure Imminent" message, I saved files, made recovery disks, and installed a new hard drive.  All specs for new HD meet requirements.  I couldn't get my recovery disks to work and ordered a set from HP.  When attempting to boot with Disk 1, process goes normally until "Insert Disk One" message appears while it's still in the drive.  I inserted Disk 2 just for giggles but "Insert Disk 1" message still appears.
I found a fix for "recovery disks from HP won't work" and downloaded the cyberlink software to dvd (on laptop) but booting with that only results in Reboot error message.
HP Diagnostics passed tests for both the new HD and DVD drives.  The "boot path" fails with BIOHD-3 error and the message "no bootable path".
In setup, HD appears in drive 1 and DVD in drive 2--both enabled.
Any help on recovery would be greatly appreciated.  I'm at my wits end.

Hi,
Do you have the boot order in the BIOS set to boot to the DVD drive first?
To open the BIOS Setup utility, turn on the computer and immediately press the F10 key repeatedly, about once every second, until the BIOS setup utility screen opens.
Choose menu screens by pressing the left or right arrow keys. Use the up or down arrow keys to move up or down through the list of items on a menu screen. Press the Enter key to select an item for modification. For certain items, pressing the Enter key opens a submenu. After you have selected a menu item, use the arrow keys to modify the settings. Press the Esc key to exit from a submenu. Help is shown on the right side of the screen.
Jaco
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