Problems recovering with recovery disks

Hi i've got a compaq presario cq61 and i got a bug and tries to recover when i turn it on it says hard disk 1 error then when i inser recovery disk it says error 100a but i dont know what is wrong with it any suggestions of what it could be thats going wrong??
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Hi,
The drive on the link below is an example of one that would be fine for your notebook.
500Gb Hard Drive
The procedure to replace the Hard Drive starts on Page 53 of your Maintenance & Service Guide.  As shown in the guide, you need to remove the caddy from your current HDD and attach it to the new one so that the drive locates correctly.
Once done, simply use your Recovery DVDs to reinstall the Operating System on the new drive - a guide on this can be seen Here.
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