T410 won't boot up with Recovery Media CD

Hi all,
Long story short, dropped lappy, took it to Geek Squad at best buys, determined they could not see all 3 partition, only one partition. So they said buy new hard drive and take old drive elsehwhere to recover data.
Bought new hard drive, tried to boot up with Recovery/Boot Media but the system is saying "worng disk, please put in correct one" I only have 1 Recovery Media Disk that I made last year. Am i missing something?
If i can't use the Media Disk how should i proceed so i can get the lappy working again? Do i have to purchase MS office 2007 and start from there?
Thanks!

Sounds like you may have created a Windows repair disk, not a Lenovo recovery disk set?
Edit: You can get a T430 recovery disk set from Lenovo - about $45.00
Keith
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