Question How do I fix an old internal HDD giving me a CRC error?

[itsawolf195]

Hi guys, a few days ago I got an internal HDD out of my Uncle's PC which he told me I could keep if I can fix it. This should've been my first warning...
Turns out the hard drive is corrupted and keeps giving me cyclic error checks whenever I try to format the disk or try opening another volume on the disk.
The software I'm currently using for it is EaseUS, since it helped me install and integrate my SSD into my build a few months back.
I've even went as far as to use CMD to try and fix the hard drive.
The drive is a WD Blue 2TB HDD, so I guess it's new-ish

what I've tried:
-Disk manager to format it to GPT
-Use EaseUS to try and wipe/format the HDD
-Use CMD to try to format the HDD
-Use EaseUS to try and recover any lost partitions on it

Thus far I've managed to discover that for some reason it is stuck in read-only mode.

 

[USAFRet]

CRC error often indicates a physical drive fail.
Sounds like this one is a fridge magnet donor.

 

[mundial]

As USAF has mentioned error CRC error message normally means physical problems with your disk. However, in rare instances, CHKDSK can fix it.

fix cyclical redundancy check external hard disk case study

 

[USAFRet]

Even if chkdsk fixes it...how far are you going to trust it? And what size is this drive? Old = small?