How to 'initialize' a hard drive in Vista?

rags_20

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I just got a 7200.12 1TB drive. I noticed that it has no jumper. When I plugged it in, it installed drivers and stuff. It was detected in Device Manager too. But when I go to format it, it says that the drive hasn't been initialized. I don't know how to initialize the drive in Vista! Help!