Rcovery of Windows XP from HP recovery disks

My HP Pavillion DV5000 laptop harddisk crashed and had to be replaced. During installation of Windows XP from from the two recovery DVDs the process stops soon after inserting DVD2 which gets ejected repeatedly. What can I do to get my system up and running?

jakhannew wrote:
Thanks for chipping in.
There are no messages. The error message before inserting recovery Disk 2 continues to be displayed.
What is the error message?

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