T42P-Rebooting Windows after Loading/installing Recovery Discs

I just installed a new hard drive after crash, and loaded new purchased recovery disc set from Lenovo. Any ideas how to get machine to boot to windows after installing? Keeps rebooting to Recovery menu with no options for windows. Assume this recovery disc set brings laptop to 'as new shipped' condition.
thanks,
B

As the recovery discs are read, the recovery program copies a number of compressed files over to the hard drive. It then boots back into the recovery program, "prepares" the hard drive (this process takes some time and the dialog box appears to hang with no evident hard drive activity) and then extracts the system and application files to their proper locations. After this it boots into Windows to begin the configuration process (unless you press F11 at the prompt, which puts you back into the recovery program and allows you to do a custom recovery without going through the configuration process for the full recovery). It will boot into Windows a number of times as it completes the configuration process.
I hope I remembered all that correctly. Anyway, at which point is your machine rebooting?
Don
Message Edited by ConnectDon on 07-11-2008 07:32 PM

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You probably have some problem with your discs or Optical drive. The best you can do now is try to find out where the problem resides.
The simplest (I think) way to do this is to take the second CD (the one that always produces the error messages) and copy the complete contents to a temporary folder on another machine. Why this? If the CD is defective you will probably see that also on that machine. It will probably stop with an error message saying it can't read the contents of the disc.
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