For making your own flywheel steel should do fine. You're probably not aiming for an 80,000+RPM flywheel that rides on magnetic bearings. So composites shouldn't be needed. The best material, eventually, for flywheels should be carbon nanotubes. They have huge tensional strength, but lousy compression strength. Tensile loads is what a flywheel has, so they'd work great.
It is important to note that not all batteries associated with these computer models are affected. The company is directing all users to its HP Battery Recall website to go through the online validation and replacement process.
If your HP computer with Windows 7 does not have the HP recovery program, or if the recovery discs or USB drive was not created before the recovery partition was damaged or erased, you will need to find a set of the HP recovery discs that match your model number from the Internet or install a new operating system.