I experienced a hard drive failure on my Pavillion d4d-1543sb laptop. Before I new that this was a hard failure I ordered the Recovery CD's from HP which I received last November. I was not able to get the laptop past the BIOS hard drive tests and so I put the product away for a while. I just replaced the hard drive with the comprarable replacement of the same size and brought out my Recovery Discs again. I also ran the memory, CPU and both quick and long version of the hard drive tests, all passing. When trying to restore from the CD's, the 1st CD loads fine and then I'm asked for the 2nd CD. This just hangs and the only button that is enabled in the Cancel button. If I hit the space bar the disc is ejected and a boot-up starts. The laptop then simply goes into a loop with a restart every 3 to 5 minutes. I have let this run for over 12 hours and it never comes out of the loop.
Is there a key sequence that needs to be entered when the second disc is inserted? Are there any other suggestions?