New hard drive, recovery discs won't work! Help!!

Hi - the hard drive on my Pavilion 4070-us crashed, so I bought a replacement drive - a Samsung SSD 850 EVO, 256GB.  The problem is that I can't seem to get the recovery discs to work, and neither Microsoft or HP is willing to help me.  Microsoft of course tells me that they won't give me any help for OEM versions of Windows 7, and HP said that my product has been discontinued so they won't help me.  That's ridiculous - I own a legal copy of Windows 7 and I can't get any help from the company that sold me the computer? 
What happens after I go through the installation process with the recovery discs is that instead of the Windows installation continuing like it's supposed to, I get "No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key".  I'm desperate, I tried two different options - one was the minimal image recovery, the other one was a factory restore.  Nothing seems to work. What can I do?   By the way, the original hard drive is not *completely* dead - I can still access most of the data on it.
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Yes it is...It works fine for me.
Here is the source webpage.  Select the W7 Home Premium x64 download link from there...
http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/14709-Windows-7-Digital-River-direct-links-Multiple-Languag...

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