>>106460290

Yes, if it's a secondary hard drive (new from the store) then just plug it in, don't do anything with it (like initializing etc, it must not appear in "My PC", only in disk manager as an "unitialized drive"). This is how the test should look like. If it passes the test with no warnings then initialize it, allocate, assign a letter, quick format it etc.

>The drive to be tested doesn't need to be wiped via nwipe

If it's a new drive then no.