HDD Upgrade on Macbook

Hi All
I am planning on upgrading my 2008 Macbook from 2gb of ram to 4gm...and while I was at it I was going to replace my hard drive...Heres my question
I no longer have the original packaging that came with the laptop, so no OSX DVD. I do have the Snow Leopard DVD that I used to upgrade to 10.6. Will this be okay to give me a full clean install on a new Hard Drive, or do I need to original OSX disk?
Thanks,

If you already have an external that is used with a PC it would need to be erased and formatted for OS X using Disk Utility....then download 'Carbon Copy Cloner'
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7032/carbon-copy-cloner
Clone you current system to the external....install the new drive....boot from the external....clone back to the new drive in the MacBook..
You will also need to format the new drive after it is installed....you will be able to do that with Disk Utility while booted from the clone...it is all very easy

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