My hard drive says catastrophic error I can erase and reuse it?

After a power cut my new hard drive came back and said catastrophic error. A friend tried to partition it. Can it be erased and used?

Download and use the utility of diagnostics by the hard drive manufacturer to understand the true state of the reader.

(For that matter - this isn't really a matter of Microsoft.)

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