Thank you for clarifying and just for my education, preclear does not start at all, sitting at 0% progress, is that normal behavior for this script.
This drive is not off to a good start, with numerous bad sectors right off the bat. This drive wasn't drop-shipped to you, it was drop-kicked to you! You may want to *try* to capture a SMART report, but if you can't - RMA it. On the bright side, it's always good to find out these things *before* you trust your data to it.