acer hard drive failure, what now?

I went to , https://secure.tx.acer.com/RCDB/Main.aspx?brand=acer and put in my SSID that was on my computer and then ordered a recovery disk for 42 dollars
So now I am off to get a new harddrive. I should be able to just pop in the drive and recovery disk when it gets here and it should boot up and start installing right?

Pity you could have had a clean install without the rubbish for $0.
This license was paid for when the PC was first sold.

pointmanzero said:

The hard drive that went out was a seagate barracuda 7200.12 750GB. If I am buying a new one a might as well buy something a little better I suppose. You guys reccommend anything?/

If it is a boot drive, I'd lean toward Western Digital Caviar Black or Samsung.

Prices are likely up quite a bit from a couple of months ago.

You will have to format and partition it. I'm not sure if a recovery disk is smart enough to do that for you.

I have 3 Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB without problems. You may just be unlucky or I have been lucky.
I was looking at Samsung Spinpoint but they seem to have caught up in price.

I got a 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black, it seem to be working fine, it is louder then my last drive.
Anyway I am back up and running thank you everyone for the help.

That is Good News, well done.