Pavilion g6 recovery after Hard Drive renewal

Have run start-up tests with new hard drive fitted and all passed.
Have 4 recovery discs from HP. Loaded disc 1of3 ok then 2of3 freezes at 73% complete and gives failure message. Pressing ok to try again just removes the message.
Is this a problem with the recovery discs ??
Do have recovery back-up on external hard drive with USB connection, is it possible to reload direct from this ??
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Hi,
Do you still have the original hard disk? Is it still working?
No. You cannot recover by using the back-up on external drive.
Did you happen to clone the recovery partition to the external disk?
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