Pavilion Notebook Hard drive replacement boot problem

Hi .. hoping for help...
Just purchased a zv5000 pavilion notebook with a bad hard drive ....
Replaced hard drive with a western digital 160 gig ...
When I try to boot with the original application and driver Recovery DVD, I get the following message ...
Intel undi, pxe-2.0 (Build 082) Copyright 1997-2000 Intel Corporation.
For realtek RTL8139(X) 18130/810 PCI Fast Ethernet Controller v2.13 (020326)
PXE-E61: media test failure, check cable
PXE-MOF: Exiting PXE Rom ...
This is as far as I can get and the message just repeats ...
I have gone into set-up andmade sure I am booting from the CD Rom drive, but still have same problem.
Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong ?
Thank you for any tips ... have a great day
Sam
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I have not replaced my hard drive on my Pavilion notebook, but I am getting the same message when I try to turn on my computer.
Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 082)
Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation
For Realtek RTL8139(X)/8130/810X PCI Fast Ethernet Controller v2.13 (020326)
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM.
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