Wiped drive, using recovery disks to restore, when restarting to complete won't boot

[whatever19]

Used a drive wiping software to wipe the drive and partitions in preparation for recycling. I am original owner of computer, have the windows sticker but no disks came with computer. However, I had a set of recovery disks from the original set up of computer. When I booted with recovery disks I had it do the factory reset. It ran through all 4 recovery disks and then said I needed to restart to complete. However, when I restart it won't boot to windows.  All the memory, startup and drive tests pass. I can access the BIOS and tried booting from disk or hardrive and nothing works. If I put disc 1 back in it will let me run through the factory reset but I only get to the black screen of insert bootable device when that process runs. I ran through all the options on the HP support page, such as hard reset, restoring BIOS defaults, etc.

[CherylG · Accepted solution]

Try prepping the hdd with the Cyberlink Utility cd provided by HP.  Download and Save the file. Once download is complete, put a blank cd in your drive and click the file to create a boot cd. Boot with this cd and wait until you get a green check mark indicating hdd is ready. Remove the cd , insert first Recovery Disk and restart the laptop.

http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib/software11/COL32372/​pv-80183-1/sp44645.exe

[whatever19]

Bravo! It worked.