Replaced hard drive in dv6 but doesn't complete installation phase

I replaced my hard drive with one of the disks recommended by an HP expert in this forum, and it seemed to go well. After booting with my #1 recovery disc and loading each one when prompted, I got the final prompt/message: "Recovery Preparation is complete. Remove the Recovery Media from the system. After the computer is restarted, the recovery installation process will begin ... Press continue to restart the computer." When I hit the "Continue" button, the screen went dark as if it was restarting. But instead, a black screen with the HP logo in the center appeared, with only the text: " Press the ESC key for Startup Menu" in white letters in the bottom-left corner. I waited about a half hour, then pressed the ESC key, but it didn't change anything. Same HP screen. And that was it -- nothing else happened. I left it on overnight, thinking maybe it takes time to get going, but in the morning, the same screen was there and my laptop was hot as if in use. So I turned it off at that point. What went wrong, and what should I try now?
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If the recovery media is what you are using, then that normally has the best option and best results. Since that is not working at present, I would try installing from the regular install media. I know you state that HP does not supply install media and that is correct. Actually most, if not all OEM's, do not supply media anymore and rely on either Recovery Media
( which is what you have ) or Recovery Paritionon on the hard drive, which you would have when the PC was new.
Since you are using Windows 7 and assuming that is what came with the PC, otherwise you would have install media, then you can make your own install DVD by downloading the image directly from Microsoft. Making sure to pick the same version that was installed originally then use the key on the Microsoft sticker on the case.
If you have boradband internet it will take about 30 minutes to download the image.
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