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Is your Windows 7 HP with SP1 installed? and is your installation disk a Windows 7 SP1? I am not sure if that would make a difference, but I know a pre SP1 repair disk will not work on a SP1 installation.
When it rolls back to your current OS open an elevated command prompt ( click start, type cmd in the search box, right click on the cmd entry and select run as administrator) in the black box that opens, copy/paste sfc /scannow. If you decide to type it, notice the space between the sfc and the /. It is a system file checker which will scan your system files and attempt to correct any missing or corrupt files. What we want are the results to say windows found no integrity violations. If it says files were found but could not be repaired, close the box, reboot and run it again, after opening the administrative command prompt. You may have to reboot and run it three times for it to repair all system files. If it can't repair them after 3 reboots, let us know.