I am going to install a new eighty gigabyte hardrive.What are the
basic steps I have to take after it is put in the case?How do I format
it?

The drive should come already formatted. You should just be able to follow the installation manual (for proper jumper settings) and use it.

yeah usually sometimes if you use the same as the oem drive like i have sometimes, just leave all the jumpers off the new one and set the old one as the master and they work no probs.