Install win 7 on pc with win 8.1

i just got this 110-430 pc with win 8.1 installed. i replaced a 500gb sata drive with a 1tb sata drive. i reinstalled win 8.1 using a non hp install disk. unfortunately it installed it's own bios. i flashed the bios with the update from the hp site. i reinstalled win 8.1 using hp recovery disks. after several days of usage i realized i did not like win 8.1. i set the bios to boot from disc and disabled fast boot and safe boot. i had a new win 7 microsoft disc and booted from that. i did a clean install. after a couple of hours of stopping and starting and doing installation stuff it went to the starting windows screen. and sat. and sat forever. now windows never starts, not even in safe mode. the machine will not boot from anything but the hard drive. it will not boot from the win 7 disc. it will not boot from either of the win 8.1 recovery discs i have. it will not boot from a disc that will nuke the hard drive and let me start over. any help will be appreciated. thanks in advance.

it appears the key is f11. so i'm able to restore win 8.1. how do i get win 7 to install properly? 

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