Help with Hard drive install

[sillyuser]

Hi,
Can you please help me as I am having and have had so many problems its easier just to get to the point and tell you the mess I am in now.
Have Macbook pro, bought second hand.
Put "new" hard drive in that had been formatted on a windows machine with macdrive 8 in the MAC OS EXTENDED (hsf+) format.
Old hard drive is not accessible at all.
Do I need to do anything else to the hard disk to enable the system to "see it" or does this happen when I boot from my OS DVD/CD which will be Snow Leopard, (I am yet to buy it)
Please help me if you can because I am not ashamed to say that I have no idea, even after reading through forums and googling for two days.

 

[miles01110]

If there were any problems with the Macdrive formatting you'll have a chance to re-do it when you prepare to install from the disc.

 

[sillyuser]

So what you are saying is that, I dont need to do anything else to the hard drive and that when I get my snow leopard and boot holding down the option key, that the disk utility and everything will run off the DVD?
I am sorry, but you can probably work out here I am pretty clueless

 

[SlickShoes]

So what you are saying is that, I dont need to do anything else to the hard drive and that when I get my snow leopard and boot holding down the option key, that the disk utility and everything will run off the DVD?
I am sorry, but you can probably work out here I am pretty clueless

Yes, you can run disk utility direct from the snow leopard DVD. From there you can format the new HDD however you like.

 

[sillyuser]

OMG
Thank you so much, I am very much relieved.
Now to give it a go tomorrow when I go buy the OS.
I will repost if I have any more problems.
Thank you