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It looks as if the disk was slowly deteriorating up to the point where critical bookkeeping info got hard/impossible to read. That's why chkdsk now chokes on it (sees it as a RAW disk).
I wouldn't put too much emphasis on HDTune reported 100% damaged; it probably could not access the disk and so failed on every try to read.
The question is: is it only a ...
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