How to reformat a new Hard drive

Hi
i recentley bought a new hard drive for my 2006 intel imac i was wondering how i can frmat it for mac. This is what happens i put in my snow lepard install disk and it does not read it so i put in my mac book install disk it reads it and lets me set up language then is Eror then i go into my disk utility cick on the hardrive and it wont et me do any thing to it. there is a partition in it that says Mac OSX install disk. i dont know what to do.
Thanks

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