Recovery disk from toshiba not working

hello, i order recovery disk and downloaded them and neither set worked , i put first disk in and it just says "no operating system available"?"? when i configured the new and old harddrive i did get rid of partitions? what if anything can i do to get recovery disks to run???  this is for a p505 unit

Test the hard drive then the memory modules, post back the results.
 http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Lockups-Freezes-Hangs/How-to-test-RAM-and-HDD-Hard-Drive/td-p/...

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