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Congrats! You're making me proud by casting off the MS shackles.
In my years I've found most stubborn Linux problems are actually hardware problems. Either the hardware doesn't have a driver or something is physically wrong.
It may be possible to use that old drive, but I wouldn't trust it. There is a way to format a drive while flagging the bad blocks, but usually more bad blocks come about. I think windows can do that too, but not positive.
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