Windows 7 boot disk isn't installing

I have a Pavilion Dv6t-7000 Quad entertainment notebook and recently it stopped working. When started up it would goto raid volume then goto no boot device found , press f2 for systems diagnostics. I ran the HDD extensive process one time and it said it would take 10 mins but when I took the hard drive out and reconnected it and did the test over the time changed to 2 hours and 44mins and it passed. So I bought a windows boot disk and tried to do the reboot but it wouldn't work and I keep getting random errors

Have you followed the troubleshooting procedures on the document at the following link?
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01443463&tmp_task=solveCategory&cc=us&dlc=en&lc...
 Try the method described in the following web document. It may be just a corrupt BCD store.
https://neosmart.net/wiki/recovering-windows-bootloader/
What kind of random errors are you getting? Can you provide specific examples?
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