Replaced hard drive on a Pavillion G6. Need to reload Windows 7. I have the product key.

I borrowed a windows 8 disk to boot the new hard drive. I was running Windows 8.1 beta from a Windows 8 upgrade. I cannot register the windows 8 OS with my Windows 8 upgrade product key. Can I just load windows 7 from this point, then reload the Windows 8 upgrade?
Thanks for any feedback.
v/r,
Rich
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I have ordered the recovery disk (windows 7) and will proceed in this direction.
Thank you for your assistance.
Best regards,
Rich

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