Did you follow directions on how to transfer data between two 360 HDD's? I imagine there are tons online. Try hooking it up to your 360 and seeing if the 360 has an option to format the HDD. Usually devices like 360's, phones and such that format will properly format it and give it any necessary files for successful use with the device.
I can't imagine you ever needing to hook up to a PC for this process, but admittedly I haven't looked it up at all. Why couldn't you just hook it up via USB to the 360 and transfer the data and then just install it?