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Unable to write to the last block of the device

Hello,

I would recommend that you connect the drive to a Windows computer and write zeros on the drive using Data Lifeguard Diagnostics. For this, visit the article below:

Then initialize the drive, connect it back to your Mac and try to reformat it:

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