Mac Book booting takes too long

My mac book pro has a booting problem. It takes forever at the apple logo and after sometime the apple logo vanishes but the loading icon still continues for a while. Which continues please advice

I tried it but it didn't work. The hard disk had totally failed so had to purchase a new one. A Toshiba when I try to format it using disk utility during set up, it gives me the following error : DISK ERASE FAILED WITH THE ERROR
WIPING VOLUME DATA TO PREVENT FUTURE ACCIDENTAL PROBING FAILED.
It's a new hard disk which has not yet been formatted at all. Could you please advise on the way forward ?

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