Wiping an old windows partition and reformatting it for an OS X backup?

I recently installed a new SSD on my 2008 macbook, and the old hard drive contained a Windows partition. Since Windows doesn't run off of a USB HD, i really have no use for it, and I would like to instead use the partition for a backup for my main mac OS. Is it possible to reformat this partition so it will be compatible with Mac OS X? Thanks!

Yes. Use the Disk Utility in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder to format it as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
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