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Use ddrescue to copy to a working disk, if I remember it will try a number of times and eventually skip the broken sectors so that at least you have a working filesystem on the copy.
ddrescue to the rescue! This is the best advice to get the data out. Don’t muck about too much because more things can fail. Use ddrescue to rescue the data and write a disk image somewhere else. Then make another copy of this one and try to do the filesystem rescue magic on that copy. Really make sure the bad disk marked as unusable.
I think there is misunderstanding because of my phrasing. i dont want to recover data from the drive. Instead i want to repair the drive to use for low priority external storage.
Too far gone at this point. It sucks, but every drive has an end of life. After that point, no matter how many hoops you jump through, they're read only until they quit entirely. I think that's where you are now, so even if there's something in the thread that works to get it back to being able to write to it, you should consider what you get on there as read only, and maybe that only is "only once".
You can't my dude
That's not how failing hardware works. Recycle and use another piece of non failing hardware.