Unable to boot on hard drive in HP pavilion dv41211tu

I bought new hard drive Hitachi 500 GB 7200 rpm and try to boot by recovery CD I have but unable to boot. The screen shows black with blinking arrow when insert recovery CD. Please help me to sort out the problem . when tried some other CD of window 7 from market it starts booting but shows load driver

Hello , Welcome back to the HP Support Forums! I came across your post about the recovery, and wanted to assist you! You may want to try installing your original Hard Drive, and copying it to the new one.  Please review the following resources to assist you, if needed:Move to a New Hard Drive (Not a HP supported Web site).HP Notebook PCs - Performing an HP System Recovery (Windows Vista) Please let me know if this information was helpful by clicking the thumbs up below.
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