The recovery disk fail to install

The recovery disk I just got in and went through the entire process and it still failed to install giving me an error message.

I would suggest attempting the recovery again and follow the instructions in the following link:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c01867418
Note: if you have any peripherals attached during the recovery it could cause it to fail.
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