Hard Drive Crashed -  New Hard Drive - Time Machine

So my hard drive crashed. I have the black MacBook A1181. So I decided to get the Western Digital - Scorpio Black hard drive. Its a perfect fit and a huge upgrade from the stock Toshiba hard drive you get. The only problem is, i can't install Mac OSX. I have the disk but I have no Time Machine back up, since i don't have an external hard drive and I wasn't expecting my hard drive would crash any time soon. So what am I supposed to do? Get a time machine back up off my sisters computer or one of my friends computers?

Hi,
Do you still have the disc(s) that came with your computer? You'll need this to format the hard drive and install the operating system.

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