How to reformat a drive running Mtn Lion

A friend's Mac running Mountain Lion is producing repeated odd errors. Various new apps refuse to install and run. He suspects the cause is a rogue utility he installed. He's determined to back it up, reformat the drive and remount Mountain Lion. Then reinstall his apps and data.
Can he use the hidden partition to re-install the OS? What are the recommended procedures in this situation?

Back up all data to at least two different storage devices.
Boot into Recovery (command-R at startup), launch Disk Utility, and erase the startup volume. This operation will destroy all data on the volume, so you had be better be sure of your backups. Install OS X. If your Mac was upgraded from an older version of OS X, you’ll need the Apple ID and password you used to upgrade, so make a note of those before you begin.
When you reboot, you'll be prompted to go through the initial setup process. That’s when you transfer the data from one of your backups. For a walkthrough, see here:
Using Setup Assistant
Don't transfer the Guest account, if it was enabled on the old system.
Note: You need an always-on Ethernet or Wi-Fi connection to the Internet to use Recovery. It won’t work with USB or PPPoE modems, or with networks that require any kind of authentication other than a WPA or WPA2 Personal password.

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Which browser are you using now? I use Firefox and when I click on the arrow in the search field, I get all these choices of search engines:
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Buwumdi wrote:
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It's cmd-R actually

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bumpastor,
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