Replaced hard drive- will not reboot

Replaced hard drive on hp compaq mini cq10- 120ca because it quit working and the diagnostics said the hard drive was no good. Had a back up flash drive, but when I tried to reboot it says the bootmgr is missing. The mini did not come with any back up cd. What can I do to remedy this, and how can I verify the flash drive  is bootable. When I connect the flash drive to another computer it looks like all of the backup files are there. It had windows xp home on it.  Thank you.

Hi Tomilly,
The easiest way is to get a recovery image from HP, please call HP call center and request a recovery image either via USB drive or CD type depends on your configuration.
If your original HDD is still workable, please re-install this HDD back.  Boot up the system and locate the HP recovery manager, there shall be an option to create recovery media which can store all your image including the OS to the media.
Best rgds,
Kick_OK
I work for HP.

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