Trouble installing windows on new HD

I have a Toshiba Satellite L505-S6946 which originally came with Vista but when I bought it, was given a free upgrade to 7 (this was manufactured just before 7 rolled out, so 7 update was included in purchase but not already installed).
When booting up, I see the Toshiba logo and then a black screen with a solid white cursor in the UL corner. I've tried booting with F8, F2, F12, ESC, zero, and every other imaginable attempt at gaining access to BIOS, safe mode, reset, etc.
I took out the hard drive and brought it with me to a factory-authorized repair place and purchased a new hard drive. Once installed, I am getting the same black screen with a cursor at the UL corner, and cannot seem to get my recovery disks to load. It appears that neither the old nor new hard drive is recognized.
New HD is Seagate 320 SATA 5400RPM with 8MB Cache. Old one was 320gig WD Scorpio Blue (model: WD3200BEVT-26ZCT0).
How do I re-install? What am I doing wrong?
Thank you!

If you repeatedly tap F2 while booting, does it load the BIOS?
If you repeatedly tap F12 while booting, does it show the boot menu?
If not, it doesn't sound like a hard drive failure. It may be a hardware failure in the laptop itself.
- Peter

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