How should I format and partition my two new hard drives in a 2010 MBP?

My good old mid-2010 13" MBP just lost its stock hard drive. I've decided to keep the laptop, set aside the defunct drive for future data recovery and pop two new drives in the computer along with a 8GB ram upgrade (two 4g ddr3 chips).
The two drives I'm working with now are a 256GB Crucial MX100 SSD (intended for my OS and startup) and an HGST 1TB Travelstar (for apps and storage) that I'm popping into the optical bay [via conversion tray].
I'm putting everything together myself then taking the build to tekserve (or the apple store? which should I go to for OS re-install and formatting help? ) to re-install my original OS (snow leopard) or mountain lion. i cant find my recovery disks and also can't download mountain lion on another comp. to boot my laptop build with.
Is it okay to just throw the drives in myself and let pros format them for me? I know i should be installing the OS myself but all of my workaround options are fleeting due to time constraints... gotta get my OG setup up and running.
Thanks everyone.

sageakash,
I have the same model MacBook Pro as you. If the 1 TB Travelstar HDD is a SATA III disk, then you might have trouble with it in the optical bay due to the connecting cable. To minimize problems, put a SATA II disk rather than a SATA III disk into the optical bay.
If you want your MacBook Pro’s original iLife apps to be installed on your new disks, then you’ll need to have Snow Leopard installed first, even if your target OS is Mountain Lion; they can’t be subsequently installed from the grey Applications Install DVD once a newer version of OS X is on your boot volume.
What is your concern with pros formatting your disks? What’s “OG”?

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