I need to format my mac from another mac

I have a macbook and a friend has given me a macbook pro to format mine from the latter.
My floppy disk drive does not work and I need to make it like that.
Can someone help me and to explain to me which is the process?
Thank you very much

There is no absolute need to isolate Windows from your Mac.
You do, however, have to protect the Windows side of your computer with antivirus and antimalware software.
You can decide on the level of integration.
You can share a specific folder to move files between the two operating systems.
You can just drag and drop files between OSX and Windows without creating a shared directory.

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