Recovery from DVDs

Hello,
This is very frustrating!.......
HP Pavillion DV6 Notebook Windows 7 Home Premium
PC was hacked
Tried to restore from recovery partition by pressing F11 and then following instructions for factory reset. It went through a lot of processes and seemed to be restoring the operating system etc. As part of the process the PC turns off and then comes back up. Then it says 'Setting up PC for first time use' (or something like this). Then get an error saying 'Error system could not be restored' (again something like this. Apologies it has been a while)
Looked on the net and on this forum. Worked out I needed the HP recovery disks. I was created before
Get the recovery DVDs a couple of months later. Put disk 1 in the cd drive and start the computer. It is still trying to start windows from it's previous incomplete set up from recovery partition. It does not take notice of the disk in CD drive. I hunt around more and discover that I need to change the boot order from BIOS menu. I change the order of boot disk to internal cd/dvd ROM first. I change it back to C drive afterwards.
Now starting the computer with DISK 1 in CD player HP recovery manage doesn’t starts
It shows a error massage or it doesn’t boot from that DVDs. And when I am opening my DVD rom
And clicking on (etfsboot) it says the version of this file is not computable with the version of Window you are running
I retry all of the above with the CD's this time not needing to change the boot order. SAME RESULT!!! The error log is below.
I do not want to launch a rocket into space! Just want my PC back!
I am moderately computer literate! God help the total beginner!
Can anyone help??? And thank you in advance.

OK.
Press the power button and immediately begin tapping the Esc key to invoke the startup menu.
Press F9 for boot options. In the options menu choose the DVD drive.
The notebook should seek the disk in the drive and boot from it. #1 recovery disk of the recovery disk set is a bootable disk.
An alternative is to click on F10 to invoke the BIOS. In system configuration click on Boot options and put DVD drive at the top of the list. Press F10 to save the change and exit. The notebook will seek a bootable disk in the drive every time you start it until you change the boot options list again.
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