Is my hard drive dying?

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You can also using Disks to format the drive, which comes already installed. Not that there's anything wrong with Gparted but I wanted to share this thread for you to use as reference:

Why can't I use my USB?

Before you proceed you should be aware that formatting the drive will erase its contents. By the looks of it, I assume this must be a new drive or recently formatted so I would say it's safe to continue as any data in there is unlikely to be easy to recover without taking it to a data forensics specialist. All right, moving on. First, you need to create a partition on the drive, using the button with the + sign. You can create as many partitions as you like but unless you have a specific need, …