Hardware Problem with Wii U-formatted HDD

[Brayton]

Try taking it to best buy?

 

[dyerseve]

HDD: Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6L080P0 80GB PATA133 HDD[/B]

Bit of a necropost but wanted to point out the obvious:
Maxtor? Seriously? Haven't seen that in the field in years, that thing has got to be at least 10 years old. Seagate bought and basically wound Maxtor down in 2006. I haven't seen a working one in a few years, even if it was never used I wouldn't trust putting anything I care about on that drive. You can use Seatools to test the disk I bet.