Restore Windows 7 operating system on a new hard drive in HP Mini 210 1095NR

I have a HP Mini 210 1095NR that had its hard drive crash and is not recoverable.  I have purchased a Seagate 320 gig hard drive to replace the original (160 gb I think) and I have ordered HP recovery disks.  They came as a set of two disks.  I used a free software (Daemon) to make ISO copies to two USB sticks one for each disk.  However, in researching this further it appears that using a clean drive will not be compatible with the recovery disks sent by HP.  There were mentions on the site that I visited, that I will need to purchase from HP some other media for a clean installation.  Is that correct and/or can I format the hard drive myself and then use the recovery disks from HP?

you can format the harddisk first.
complete the installation of any os..
then keep your HP recovery disks and boot in..
now you can be capable of using recovery disks
Hope this helps
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