Replaced hdd and system won't boot up.

I replaced my hard drive in my hp dv7 laptop and went through the recovery process and it will not boot up. When I turn on it freezes up at the hp screen.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Hello,
1. I would suggest taking it to a computer shop and having them take a look at it or run system diagnostic.
2. Your new hard drive could be bad or defective, might have gone out or something got way to hot inside there and got toasted.
3. You need to reinstall diffrent hard drive or try to remove all, you should try boot laptop with out any hard drive ?
4. Disconnect your hard drive see if no longer freezes during system boot?
I'm afraid, this has happened to me a few times.

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boot off cdrom or a netboot server and mount the / partition as /mnt.
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It seems most likely you screwed up the creation of meta devices.
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[ 240.340286] 0000000000013f00 ffffffff81818540 ffff8800cf2331b0 ffff8802094f67a8
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[ 240.340357] [<ffffffffa0a05796>] ? btrfs_buffer_uptodate+0x56/0x80 [btrfs]
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[ 240.340389] [<ffffffffa0a47745>] btrfs_tree_lock+0x65/0x200 [btrfs]
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[ 240.340446] [<ffffffffa0a47a37>] btrfs_insert_orphan_item+0x67/0xa0 [btrfs]
[ 240.340465] [<ffffffffa0a4a12e>] insert_orphan_item+0x5e/0x90 [btrfs]
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[ 240.348483] ffff88020b88bd98 ffff880211edc590 0000000000013f00 ffff88020b88bfd8
[ 240.348491] 0000000000013f00 ffff8802162289f0 ffff880211edc590 ffff8802094a70c8
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[ 240.348543] [<ffffffffa0a64213>] ? __btrfs_run_delayed_items+0xf3/0x1d0 [btrfs]
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[ 240.348590] [<ffffffffa0a06fc5>] transaction_kthread+0x1d5/0x240 [btrfs]
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