Tricky parts of installing a new hard drive

Hey there.

I'm intending to replace my 500gb hard drive with a new 1TB one due to the noises it's recently making, but I don't have any experience with installing a hard drive. So when I install the new drive, I assume I'll have to reinstall Windows from scratch. I know how to do that, but I don't know how to format the drive and divide it into partitions and such. Is it something done easily during the Windows installation?

Thanks.

you format it while installing windows. that part should be pretty obvious as windows has you choose a volume to install to and there is a format button. i'm not 100% sure but i think you have to do partitions once windows is installed using drive management. that's how i did it anyways.