Hi DPJR,
Did you create the recovery disks or did you purchase recovery disks from HP?
Are you running the factory installed operating system? Your system was introduced in 2011. Your operating system should be Win 7.
The HP support site for you system can be found here.
Your HDD may have failed. Why are you attempting to recover your system?
Please see this HP site for entering BIOS. Verify your HDD is available.
Jaco
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