Reinstall windows 7 hangs at 25%

I'm doing a favor for a friend. A virus was on the computer and needed to be wiped but they didn't have the factory install discs. I ordered those and went to reinstall windows 7 and it formats the disk and starts to load files and the then dvd drive begins to spin up and down and continue to do that at 25 % and won't go any further. I just tried a 2nd hard drive and it did the same thing. I've already ran the on board diagnostics for both the ram and the original hard drive with no errors. I'm not sure what else to do. Thanks
It's a pavilion g7 64 bit.
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Sometimes the recovery appears to hang for quite some time but is actually working. Try just leaving it for a few hours. Also be sure the wireless is turned on-some models seem to have problems if it is off.
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