USB hard disk is problematic in Linux, (I/O errors while formatting in disks and GPARTED), but works fine in es files and windows 10

[Gatewayuser]

so when I format my USB drive, it would constantly get lots of I/O errors, even ubuntu's disks can't format it, but gparted can, meanwhile I can pull up es file explorer and read the NTFS partition to get it's data, but can't copy to it, but it works fine under windows, I am currently looking on amazon to find replacement parts for the USB drive, oh and the screws are tiny, here's the USB drive on amazon SmartDisk USBFLB80 FireLite 80 GB 2.5-Inch USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive (amazon.com), it's out of stock, but its a Samsung drive.