Installing a new harddrive

I just installed a new harddrive in my dv7 laptop. I used the first 3 of the 4 CDs I received with the new hard drive. The 4th (drivers and applications) only took about 1 minute??! I then started my computer and the message I get says "Bootmgr missing". So I restarted the computer and pushed esc button. It them gave me a screen that gave me a choice:
F1 System Information
F2 System Diagnostics
F9 Boot Device Options
F10 Bios Setup
F11 System Recovery
ENTER - Continue Startup
I selected F11 and it went back to the "Bootmgr is missing" I then selected F9 and I need select either Notebook Hard Drive or Internal CD/DVD ROM Drive
Help!

Scroll down on the page and get Partition Wizard Bootable CD ISO and ImgBurn to burn the iso image to cd and boot from it. Delete all partitions, create one and format. Next try booting from Recovery again.
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