I installed a new hard drive in my Dell n7010. Now what?

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I installed a new hard drive in my Dell n7010. I have only a recovery thumb drive for it. When it boots from the recovery thumb will it format the new hard drive as part of the recovery process or do I have to format the drive somehow before running the recovery thumb?