@docyeet assuming this is a traditional platter drive, just replace it. Mechanical drives are dirt cheap. Any drive that starts to exhibit problems is going to fail sooner rather than later
@ithoughtisawa2 It is indeed spinning rust
I just find it regrettable that it has a whopping 155 days total uptime, and is out of warranty...
The new drive should come in 4-5 days, so not too bad