New hard drive installation help?

HogCooter

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I am installing a new 1tb hdd on my inspiron n7010 laptop and intend on using my dell disks to load everything back on.

Do I need to do anything to the hdd -like format /s ?

Do I just put the disks in and boot from cd?

Thanks.