Installed new HD - Unable to load Vista from Recovery DVD

[wjswarthout]

I have an HP Pavilion running Windows Vista Home Premium. The model is a DV6633us.
The hard drive died, and I purchased a new one, and ordered recovery CD's from HP. I installed the HD and when I tried to run the recovery CD's, it tells me it is unable to complete. I get a black screen, tells me to put the recovery CD's into the drive and reboot, it will go through the install again (about 1 hour) and reboots a few times, and back to the black screen. Am I missing something???
Thanks

 

[gfne]

Is you old drive out or in?

 

[flavallee]

Here is the support and software update site for the HP Pavilion dv6633us laptop which you should add and save to your browser favorites/bookmarks list so you can refer to it when needed.

It came with the original version of Windows Vista Home Premium(32-bit) pre-installed.

Here is the section on doing a system recovery.

It's possible that HP sent you the wrong recovery kit.

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[wjswarthout]

The hard drive that is in there is new. The old one went bad.

 

[gfne]

So you took the old drive out?

 

[wjswarthout]

Yes the old one is out

 

[gfne]

Can you confirm the new one is recognized in the BIOS?

 

[wjswarthout]

Yes the bios test Comes back good. I tried to attach screen shots but for some reason it is not working

 

[wjswarthout]

Oh. It looks like they did attach. Thanks