MacBook Pro Hard drive replaced, now what?

Hi,
A couple of days ago we took our MacBook Pro to the Apple store to have it looked up. We had been getting the blinking question mark file folder. They told us the hard drive needed to be replaced. The lady said doing it ourselves was faster, easy, and cheaper. So we bought a new internal hard drive and put it in. We then talked to a man at Apple who gave us specific instructions on what to do from there. We opened up disk utility and started the partitioning. However, it froze midway and stayed there all night. The next morning I called Apple again. The lady told me to shut it down and start all over. So I shut it down and started internet recovery again. Then I tried to do the disk utility again. It didn't work. I was then told to erase the drive and try starting over, because there was something on it from the initial attempt at partitioning it. However, it is now frozen again and says that it is going to be another 4 hours, and the time continuously increases. What is going on? If I turn it off and try to start over what will happen? What should I do from here? Please help!! We need this computer for grad school classes that start tomorrow!!
Thank you SO much!

wbagnew,
which model MacBook Pro do you have?

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