Macbook does not boot to anything

Previously my Macbook Pro 8,2 (15" Early 2011) was fine, but then it was not booting to Mac OS X, thus I removed the hard disk and test it, I found out that the hard disk was dead.
I didn't had enough money to buy a new hard drive, so I put inside my external hard disk Toshiba 160GB inside, and thought about re-installing the latest Mac OS X.
But when I tried booting to the Original DVD OS which I got when I bought the Macbook, when it showed the Apple logo, then a grey screen appeared, and then a bluescreen and it stucked there.
I tried booting from another copy of OS X, stuck at grey screen. Tried reset PRAM and NVRAM, non worked out.
Note: When I hold "option" key, the hard disk does not appear.
I even tried to install Mac OSX from My PC via a VM (Virtual-Machine) on the external hard drive, it does boot in the VM, but not on the Macbook.
I also tried creating a bootable USB Mac OSX Installation, still it get stuck on grey screen. I don't know much about apple product.
P.S: I wrote this question long, in order for you guys to know what I've tried.
Thanks in Advance.

Hackerpunk1
Did your early 2011 MacBook Pro ship with Snow Leopard discs and which version of OS X were you running? Did you use the gray discs that shipped with your machine to try to initialize the internal drive and install the OS that shipped with your machine?
Oh, and you could always to to boot to Internet Recovery (holding down the command, option and R keys whilst booting). You must have a good Internet connection (Ethernet is best) and, as you'll be booting from Apple's servers, it will take a while for the Recovery screen, after to globe appears, to come up.
Call back...
Clinton
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