(Perhaps someone can help me)…

I aquired a WD 1.5TB sata drive (It will be secondary drive used for data storage, my main drive will continue to host XP)… And I dont understand if this drive needs full format or quick format in XP or doesnt need it at all. I thought these things are setup in factory to be formated?.. I did run disc management in XP and the full format froze my whole computer after 2%!! When I did a forced reboot (not even task manager worked!) and when it started loading windows, it stopped on the loading screen! After removing the new drive, Windows started to load, and got a screen (blue one) telling me it is rebulding or something like that.. What did I do wrong?
Any software out these that will get the job done?

(PS my motherboard in 3years old..

Martha