Replace HDD problem

I have Mac Book, Model Identifier: MacBook7,1. Recently bad sectors developed on 120G Toshiba HDD. I get new Samsung 320G HDD, tried to replace it... but problems started:
I tried to clone the disk, but because of bad sectors, it was unsuccessful.
I decide to do new MacOS installation. After booting (with OPTION key), and choosing to boot from CD (and USB), in both cases I get "screen of death".
My friend have one generation older Mac Book (6.1), and yesterday he has replaced his HDD with SSD disk (about this later). We put the disk into his MacBook, and install MacOS successfully.
Also, we've tried to use his old (original) MacBook HDD (with already installed MacOS), but it wouldn't start. We've also tried to start new installation, but always we get "screen of death".
We realize that there is some kind of protection (I am not sure, but I think it is EFI... or something like that).
He had replaced HDD successfully, because a long time ago, he done something in order to reinstall his MacOS.
Any hint how to rid off the protection?

Screen of death:
Obviously you haven't read carefully.
There are 2 MacBooks. On the first one I can not boot from DVD nor bootable USB... I have option to boot from DVD/USB, but after few seconds I get "the message to restart the computer". I do not have that problem on the another computers... So, please spare me of this kind of advices.

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