Can I format an internal hard drive for Mac without another working hard drive?

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My MacBook Pro's hard drive failed. I want to get a new one. The place I went said they charge for formatting a drive for mac. So I can pay them to format it, or do it myself.

I know formatting an external hard drive is pretty strait forward, but I've never done an internal one.

As my old hard drive is not working I cannot use it to turn my mac on and use the disk utility. Can I format the drive using my mac if the new hard drive is the only working hard drive I have for it?

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I have the install disk the Mac came with if I can use that for formatting.
 
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G'day and welcome to the forums.

in short - Yes.

Install the new drive, boot from install disc, select language, and then go to Utilities > Disk Utility > Erase and format the new drive Mac OS Extended (Journalled) and partition if necessary under Partition with GUID selected.
 
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yup, with the install disk in the drive, turn on computer while holding down the 'c' key. You can run disk utility from the install disk to format any connected drive
 

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