Hi Michael, run an Error Scan in HDTune, that will check every sector. That's what I do with new Hitachi's as soon as I take them out of the box. No need to run windows disk management to initialize or partition the drive first, HDTune works at the disk level. If you see any bad sectors and its a brand new drive, I would exchange it.
There are other alternatives. For example, you could boot from a USB drive with something like parted-magic (or any linux live distro) and run badblocks on the drive to do a complete write/read scan.
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