Formatting new HDD on another laptop

Please know I am as noob as it gets with computers. All steps and advices are greatly appreciated.

I am buying a new laptop with a second HDD bay. I am also buying a higher capacity HDD than the one in the recent purchase.

My concern is to do a clean format on my new HDD drive to make sure its virus free and everything. I do not wish to do this on the new laptop. My question is, is it possible to format the new HDD with my old laptop?

Also, if I just take the old HDD drive out of the old laptop, will everything be as if it were normal as long as I pop the old HDD drive right back into the old laptop where it was, following the formatting job on the new HDD drive?

 

(ten or more)

 

What computer will you ultimately be putting the new hdd into?

 

old laptop has only 1 HDD bay

for the new laptop I am getting an extra internal bay to place an extra HDD. I am thinking of getting a bare minimum SDD or a high RPM HDD for the maindrive and a high storage capacity HDD on my second drive

I only want to format the newly purchased HDDs (and I want to) on the old laptop. I do not want to format this at all on the new laptop even though I know its probably easier, because I dont want any possibility of viruses etc. This may not make any sense or maybe it does, but thats my layman unwavering approach to this is.

So, once I pop in the new high capacity HDD into the old laptop, how do I format? once I pass bios password screen what should I expect on the screen and what should I type? Since it will not have an OS?

 

if you have a Windows CD you could just boot from the CD and format the drive and then end that setup.

OR download Gparted Live CD and boot off that CD and format it that way

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

then download infra recorder

http://infrarecorder.org/

and choose burn IMAGE and burn the Gparted ISO file to the CD as a image ... then Boot off Gparted and then click on the partition utility and then the new bigger driver and right click and press format .....

You will run the whole OS off the CD so don't worry about viruses

 

I'm with "the moo"

The new drive comes unpartitioned and unformatted. Place the new drive in the new laptop, boot with the windows cd, it will partition and format the drive.

You're making this too difficult

 

Come on its a brand name Spell it right