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Date: 2020-08-14 05:15 pm (UTC)That sounds like it's past the "utility" stage; what one does at that point is pull a digital copy of the disk surface and try to recover from the copy, because running the hardware or a direct drive fix utility will likely make things worse.
Generally speaking, modern hard drives that show errors are out of spare sectors and are close to comprehensive failure. It sounds like that's about where this drive is, which is unfortunate.