Replace hard drive, now will not boot

Pavilion dv7-6b78us was running windows ultimate
Had to put a new hard drive the factory one died unexpectedly. Had a 700 gig I think. now have a 350 gig. replaced HD and proceeded to run all the test to make sure it was alright. When I tried to install windows I keep getting No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key. I have tried setting it to boot of the internal CD/DVD, didn't do any thing, tried booting of a flash drive copied the OS to the flash drive and set it to boot from Flash memory, still did nothing. Set it to boot from an external cd\dvd usb drive put a new copy of windows in the drive still nothing. Have been in roxio to make a boot disk and copied windows 7 again still nothing happened. I am a collage student and I need to get this thing up and running, any help would be greatly appreciated

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