Paid $20 for HP Recovery Discs that dont work.

This computer is not supported by the System Revory Discs.
You will not be able to continue to recover this system with these discs.
Error: 0100-3658-3656-3657
..and there you have it.
I am an I.T. Director; don't waste my time with useless quetsions.
This is an HP DV6; I filled out the request form after entering my serial number on the HP site to get the discs.
The original hard drive died; I have a new one in there that is formatted and ready to go.
And then I got the error message; I used another hard drive; formatted as well.
I know Win7 works becuase, before I was going to give you 20 bucks, I wanted to make sure
that this laptop will run Win7 from another hard drive (doubly confirming that the original hard drive was bad)
and it ran Win7 Enterprise out of a work laptop that I have access to.
It ran like a charm. So, then I order the Discs from HP to match the COA on the laptop Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit and i get the error message mentioned above.
So, how do I get the discs to install Win7?

This is a consumer to consumer forum.
No one from HP will respond to you on behalf of HP.
No one here will be able to give you a "this is the way to fix the problem" answer.
There are hundreds of threads like yours which speak of the same problem.
All we can do is make recommendations.
Here are mine:
1. See if making the bootable cyberlink patch and running it before running the recovery disks, works.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=pv-80183-1&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en
2. If suggestion one above fails to work, the only other way I know of getting W7 to install is to make your own plain W7 installation media and use the product key on the notebook to activate the installation.
Here's how to do that:
If you can read the 25 character Microsoft windows 7 product key, you can download plain Windows 7 ISO files to burn to a DVD for the version of windows that came installed on your PC, and that is listed on the Microsoft COA sticker on your PC's case.
Burn the ISO using the Burn ISO option on your DVD burning program and burn at the slowest possible speed your program will allow. This will create a bootable DVD.
Or use the Windows 7 USB/DVD installation tool to compile the ISO file you download from Digital River. Link  below. You need a 4 GB flash drive to use the USB method of compilation.
http://download.cnet.com/Windows-7-USB-DVD-Download-Tool/3000-18513_4-10972600.html
Use the 25 character product key on the PC to activate the installation.
The key will activate either a 32 or 64 bit installation.
Then go to the PC's support and driver page to install the drivers you need.
Link to the W7 ISO file downloads is below.
http://www.mydigitallife.info/official-windows-7-sp1-iso-from-digital-river/

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