Tried to Recover a P25-S507 w/ Factory Disk but getting "GRUB Loading" Error

I upgraded my laptop's hard drive from the factory 60 GB to 100 GB.  I am trying to reinstall the OS from the Recovery DVD labeled "TOSHIBA Recovery and Applications/Drivers DVD Satellite P25 Series, TK119/CL1578-1".  I have already partitioned the new drive for 32GB (for the OS) and 68GB (for data use).
During the recovery process, the two partitions are recognized and then proceeds with installing on the first partition.  After the first partition is formatted and the information is loaded and completed, the computer states to remove the CD and press ENTER to restart the laptop.
During restart the TOSHIBA logo appears and then a blank screen shows up with "GRUB loading" message.  Then nothing happens and the laptop restarts, again showing the TOSHIBA logo, then the "GRUB loading" message again.  This same restart cycle continues until I have to manually power off.
I don't understand what I'm doing wrong.  Did I miss a step?  Please help...  Thanks.

GRUB is a Linux bootloader, so I guess Linux was installed on the hard drive at one time.
Boot from a disk that has fdisk.exe on it and run 'fdisk /mbr' to rewrite the master boot record.

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