HDD Failed. Possible new drive needed

Good Afternoon,
I have a quick question that i hope someone might know the answer too:
Recently my MBP HDD decided to not boot up. I switch it on, get the chimes then the progress bar under the Apple Logo. It gets about a third of the way across before shutting down.
I tried booting into Disc Utility and am unable to verify or repair the disc. When i go to erase the HDD i get an error saying it is in use. Any ideas how to get around this issue?
I suspect the HDD is dead but have purchased a new SATA cable just incase it is that causing the issue. If it comes to the worst case and i have to replace the HDD i was thinking of going for a SSD instead of optical. I have 8gb memory in my Mac so it should work.
Do you know where i can get a boot disc? I did not get one when i bought the Mac back in 2009. Once booted with boot disc i should be able to use my Time Machine backup to restore everything back to working order?
Thanks in advance for any advice you can give me.
Ian

Hi and welcome to the forum!
If you created recovery discs you can use them, if not there also an option to buy them from lenovo.
Hope this helps.
Maliha (I don't work for lenovo)
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