Switch hard drive

Hi all
My MBP has been lagging so much these past 2 months, I blamed Mavericks at first but maybe it seems my HDD is failing. I would like to replace it myself but I have one concern. How do you install Mavericks on an empty hard drive...
Im thinking of buying a new hard drive, make it external, and install Mavericks on it. Then take the new hard drive and place it in the MBP. Would that work ?
Anyone with a much simpler idea ? I already have a Mavericks bootable flash ( I clean installed 2-3 times already, still lagging ) so....
Thanks !

When HDs begin failing, they move data off of bad sectors to good ones, and sometimes it is too late to save some data bits. That is "hardware correction".
If the files that make up the OS were damaged enough by loss of HD sectors, then the problems cannot be easily solved short of doing a clean install of OSX and reinstalling software. But that does not mean *you* have this severe problem.
Probably (not assigning a specific probability) your OSX files are being shuffled much but are intact, so new hardware (HD or SSD) will save you complete loss.

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