Download a copy of Maxtors Hardrive utility. I believe it's now called MaxBlast.
Copy it to a blank Floppy and boot from it. It has (or had in the past) a HDD formate program and a diskcheck program that worked well, identifying bad sectors and estimating the abilities of the Disk.
If you know that brand of hardrive, you may also opt to use that brands boot disk for installing hard disks. Use the utilities provided on that disk to check the drive for errors and formate the drive.
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