Is this hard drive still good?

[Andrewoi1]

So I have a older seagate barracuda 500g 7200 rpm hard drive. My old pc was having Bsod issues and random shut downs and alot of other issues so I decided to take it apart and salvage what I could for my new build. I just want to know what the chances of my hard drive being bad and if I'm better off buying a new one. If it is reuse able then can I erase it fairly easy?

 

[rolli59]

It should be reusable, just do a format on the drive to erase it!

 

[Andrewoi1]

Thanks. Um as for the format. Not sure exactly how to do that. Will it be fairly strait forward once I put it in my machine? Thanks again.

 

[rolli59]

Yes it is. If for example you are going to install windows on it windows will give the option!

 

[Andrewoi1]

Lol. Alright thanks man I think I'll manage. If I have a issue I'll hit you up😛

 

[WyomingKnott]

Might be a good idea to download the diagnostics from Seagate (or whoever bought them) and run diagnostics on the drive. Just in case it's the bad part that was causing the BSOD.