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cool, as above full format (not quick) on any windows pc first as a reliabilty test of the physical drive being undamaged. Then put on whatever machine you want and format as you normally would on your operating system. This gives a strong confidence the drive is not faulty.
I'm sure Bojan already knows what to do but wanted to reiterate this here for others to find, I'm sure many have possibly dead drives sitting on shelves that really are not faulty. I also use Teracopy to replace my windows copy process so I copy with a validation step to test file integrity just as an early safeguard from developing faults. Takes longer to copy files but I feel its worth it to be sure my data is intact.
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