Recovery from computer generated "Recovery Disks".

I have a notebook G62-340us with Win7. At bootup on the splash screen I have been getting a message that states the hard drive is going to fail etc. I replaced the drive with two new drives ( seperate occasions)  but the computer generated recovery disks hang up . the first drive accepted the first recovery disk and hung at 18 % on the second disk. I replaced that with another new hard disk and that hung up at 23% of the first recovery disk . I replace the original disk and the machine still works with the same message but the boot to the desktop takes 8 mins. I realize that this disk may have Virus or spyware problems also but my main concern  is not being able to "Factory install" onto the new disks. Any help would be appreciated, thanks

I have a notebook G62-340us with Win7. At bootup on the splash screen I have been getting a message that states the hard drive is going to fail etc. I replaced the drive with two new drives ( seperate occasions)  but the computer generated recovery disks hang up . the first drive accepted the first recovery disk and hung at 18 % on the second disk. I replaced that with another new hard disk and that hung up at 23% of the first recovery disk . I replace the original disk and the machine still works with the same message but the boot to the desktop takes 8 mins. I realize that this disk may have Virus or spyware problems also but my main concern  is not being able to "Factory install" onto the new disks. Any help would be appreciated, thanks

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