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I finally ended up paying to import bytes from China, which were mostly knock-off bytes (the 8th bit was a dummy bit and the first one was often loose and barely attached to the rest of the byte), but at long last I finally, FINALLY, found enough data to fill up this drive

I got this hard drive as a

Windows said, in detail, it was a mechanical failure with the read/write mechanism as well as with the Servo electronics.