No Bootable Disk

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"No Bootable Disk" Error Message
I determined my hard drive was bad and was able to create the 4 recovery disks. I installed a new 500GB WD Scorpio Blue hard drive. I ran the recovery disks, which formatted the drive and installed the original software. At the end of hte 4th disk, it says to remove the CD and restart. Upon restart, I get the message, "No bootable disk."
I reset the BIOS to factory settings, ran hard and memry tests and both checked out OK. Using DOS prompt, I ran "dir c:" and there are 7 DIRs with only 59,704,172,544 bytes free (shouldnt there be 400+ GB?)
I then created a Windoes 7 - 64 bit repair disk from my desktop. After choosing English, there are two Operating Systems listed - 1) OS: Windows Setup, Prt Size: 69631MB, Location: (Unknown) Local Disk, and 2) OS: Windows 7 Home Basic (recovered), Part Size: 69631 MB, Location: (C Local Disk.
I chose #2 and it found a problem with the boot files and corrected them. I restarted wihout CD, but still, "No boot disk". I re-ran the repair disk and chose "StartupRepair", but it found nothing wrong. I even tried choosing #1, but the message I go there was something like, "recovery is unable to correct this problem, do you want to send info to Microsoft".
I suspect there is something amiss with the partitiob, but again, when I ran the recovery, it formatted the new drive and installed files.

Get Partition Wizard Bootable CD ISO and ImgBurn to burn the iso image to cd and boot from it. Delete partitions, create one and format. Next try booting from Recovery again.
Be sure that the wireless is turned on when running Recovery.
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#      Start LBA      End LBA Type
1             40       409639 EFI System (FAT)
2         409640   1346786831 Mac OS X HFS+
3     1346786832   1348056367 Mac OS X Boot
4     1348057088   1543368703 Basic Data
5     1543370752   1953523711 Basic Data
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# A    Start LBA      End LBA Type
1              1       409639 ee EFI Protective
2         409640   1346786831 af Mac OS X HFS+
3     1346786832   1348056367 ab Mac OS X Boot
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gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
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gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 1953525167
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1543370752   410152960      5 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
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1953525167           1         Sec GPT header
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geometry: 121601/255/63 [1953525168 sectors]
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Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [
start -
size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [
1 -
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