System recovery failure - Hangs on Check for medium in drive E

I am currently installing a new hard drive on my Satellite P300 laptop (running vista home premium service pack 2).
I have fitted the new hard drive and inserted the first recovery disc and the recovery process starts okay. The following is shown on the screen :
Waiting for ODD to become available...
ODD Drive E: ready.
Check for medium in drive E:...
At this point it proceeds no further and a cursor just spins continuously.
Is anybody able to suggest how to fix this problem and complete the recovery?
Many thanks
Adrian

Hello Dr Lamp
Many thanks for your response.
I will try again later and check the BIOS.
I have never done the recovery before so I was unsure what to expect. I had done two sets of system recovery disks in case there was ever a problem with one of them, but I get the same problem with both.
I have a Vista installation disk so I can do a clean installation that way and then add the Toshiba drivers which I can copy from the current hard drive. I am just concerned that doing it that way will inevitably result in losing some aspects of the laptop functionality that was originally part of its installation from Toshiba rather than Microsoft.
I know where the Toshiba driver folder is located but you can guarantee that there will be something that is located elsewhere that turns out to be critical to some part of the laptops performance!
Once again thanks for your response and I will post any findings.
Adrian

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