New harddrive not boting from recovery USB

Hi,
I have Windows 7 HP pavilion G6 laptop. Its hard drive had fatal error. I replaced the hard drive. I have system image on portable hardrive. I also have system recovery on USB.
New hardrive is not booting from recovery USB. If I use system image from portable harddrive, laptop does not recognize the system image.
I also download windows 7 image on DVD from digital river but it does not recognize windows image.
Any advice ?
Thanks,

We need all the info you can provide.
When you try to boot from USB Recovery-are you getting any error messages?
When you try to boot from the Windows dvd from Digtal River-are you getting error messages?
Btw, are you tapping Esc key immediately after powering on, then tapping F9 Boot options to select the USB Recovery as boot device?
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