SSD won't boot after using Win 7 recovery discs

Hi, I bought a Samsung SSD 850 EVO 1TB for my HP Pavilion dv7-4012eg which had a 1TB hard drive (same size).
I took off the original hard drive and attached the SSD on the primary slot, leaving the original hard drive unattached until I configure everything with the new one not to confuse things.
I had burned the 6 recovery DVDs from my HP and had used them before on the original hard drive without any problems.
So I did the procure I am used to, and after the 6 DVDs the recovery said the laptop was going to restart to install and configure the OS. But when I restart it says there's no bootable device, that I should insert one.
I inserted the DVDs again and went through the whole process again just in case, but still got the same no bootable device message.
I installed Ubuntu and it was very successful, and I can boot Ubuntu fine. When I try to boot the Windows partition now it starts something but says something like that the installation was not finished.
I also have my Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OA HP license readable under my laptop, so I tried to download the Win7 from the Microsoft Software Recovery but it says to contact HP because the Windows was pre-installed on my laptop.
What can I do? Any ideas why I got the no bootable device error after going through the 6 recovery DVDs?
Cheers.

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I understand that you are replacing the hard drive in your Pavilion dv7-4012e with a SSD. You were able to do the recovery but when it went to reboot you got the error no bootable device found.
Did you change the boot order in the bios back to the HDD first?
You could also try restoring the defaults in the bios so that it will scan for hardware and find the new hard drive.
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5) shut down MacBook then shut down iMac
6) rebooted iMac- all was good
I actually did this twice because a co-worker had the exact same problem on her MacBook Pro. Got both fixed today.
Thanks everyone for your help!

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