First time opening an external drive and using it as an internal. Missing steps?

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I opened a 5TB Toshiba external drive enclosure and installed the drive inside as an internal drive. All I did was plug it in and it even saved the files I'd saved on it and reads the 5TB in Windows 7. Is there anything else you're supposed to do before using it as an internal drive?