Replacing a failing hard drive with a new Hard

Hey Apple Community,
So I have a failing hard drive in my mid-2009 Macbook Pro. I can't boot it up in regular mode any longer, and only can boot it in Recovery HD. I cannot repair the disk, so I guess my only option is to replace the hard drive.
I decided against paying our local experts upwards of $300 to run diagnostics and install a cheap, new HD.  I did find a new 1TB SSHD, which I ordered and plan on installing myself.
My question is, with a NEW hard drive in the computer, can I still boot it in Recovery HD mode to do an installation of OS Yosemite? Or do I have to figure out how to obtain an external copy (on a USB drive for example) of OSY and install that somehow when I install the new HD?
Thanks in advance for your help! -MJ

mjwindett wrote:
...My question is, with a NEW hard drive in the computer, can I still boot it in Recovery HD mode to do an installation of OS Yosemite? Or do I have to figure out how to obtain an external copy (on a USB drive for example) of OSY and install that somehow when I install the new HD?...
On recent Macs, Recovery comes in two flavors with one being Internet Recovery which doesn't require a bootable drive to start with. Yours doesn't have that, so the other flavor is the Recovery partition on the failing HD you currently have.
What you can do is get an external enclosure, such as this one, install your new SSHD in it, connect it to your MBP, boot into Recovery and run Reinstall OS but with the external drive as the target. Once that's done, and you've tried booting from it, you can install the SSHD in the MBP, install the current HD in the external enclosure, and see if you can use Setup or Migration Assistant to move your files over to the SSHD.

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