SDD install and disk read error message

I recently bought an HP Envy 17T 3200 Notebook. I wanted to upgrade the primary drive to an SSD. I bought a Sandisk Extreme brand new. I installed this in the primary bay. I used the recovery disks to restore the computer as I have done in the past with other HP laptops I've owned.
It went through all five disks and seemed to recover fine. When the fifth disk was finished, I rebooted the computer after removing the disk and received an error message:
"A disk read error occurred. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart".
Thinking I had a bad drive, I bought an Intel 520 Series SSD. I replaced the Sandisk with the new Intel drive. I repeated the process above. I installed everything and actually booted into Windows for the first time. I shut the computer down temporarily. A few moments later, I rebooted and again had:
"A disk read error occurred. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart".
The odds of TWO SEPARATE SSDs being bad are remote. Something else is going on here. I ran diagnostics on the disks and they both passed with flying colors. For now, I have the original disk back in the primary bay and the computer is running fine.
Has this happened to anyone? Do I have corrupt recovery disk files? What can I do?

Hello
I'm writing this response although its an old post, since a quick search on google told me that alot of people have similar issues to this.
I will post my solution to the problem, hoping that it will help people who have this issue.
Description of problem; Just as OP, i was upgrading my primary harddisk on my Envy 17 to an SSD, and when i put the disk in it would not accept it, stating "A disk read error occurred. Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to restart".
As the SATA cable was functioning fine with the old Harddisk, i ruled that out.
Next thing i tested was wether the system would accept the harddisk if i pre-installed windows on it, before connecting it, this did not resolve the problem either.
I also reset the BIOS, did nothing.
Fustrated over this problem i acted on a hunch and disassembled the whole computer, cleaned it thoroughly and replaced the thermal paste on the heat sinks for the GPU and CPU. I also replaced the Fan on the cooling system (a simple cleaning may do the trick as well) Turned on the laptop with my new SSD in and voila, it accepted the disk and proceeded to start up windows.
I have never encountered a computer that simply wouldnt read a disk due to overheating issues, But it fixed my problem, so i'm a happy camper
Note that disassembling a laptop is an advanced job, if you are not comfortable doing it by yourself you should not attempt to do so.
By the way. This may or may not fix the issue for you, as far as i can tell this error can be the symptom of alot of issues, but if you suspect that your laptop may be overheating, this might be the solution.

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   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
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   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         250.0 GB   disk0s2
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