Windows 7 Installation on my Formatted Drive in Lenovo T410

HI
I have a Lenovo T410 laptop, in which I have formatted my hard drive completely including all default drives. Now I have a single partition, when I try to install the windows 7 with the recovery CDs which I have created when my laptop was working correctly. But it will boot with that DVD but stops at the screen "Loading Windows". Is there any settings I need to change before installing windows 7 to the bios or something. I tried with the other Windows 7 DVD from Microsoft MSDN, even though i am not successfull.
Actually after deleted all the drives I have installed Windows XP and it was successful and when I try to install Windows 7 it is not going through. Please anyone suggest me any tips on how to install Windows 7 on my hard drive. Are there any other settings I need to chanage?
Thanks.

Sorry, I figured you had already used that because you had already removed the partitions.
There are several versions available on the Ultimate Boot CD.
You will need to download it and use a utility like imgburn to burn the image to a CD.
The instructions on how to do that are here.
As to using the FDISK utility in the UBCD, there are simple menu's that follow the list of utilities on the page that I posted the link to above. Once you actually pick the FDISK utility, just follow the instructions. If you can't get it to work, let me know which FDISK utility you are using and I will put together some instructions for you.
If that cannot find the harddrive, then it sounds as if there is a harddrive issue.
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