I really appreciate the help.... It errored out though. Here is what gparted reported:
| Create Primary Partition #1 (ntfs, 232.88 GiB) on /dev/sdd 00:00:37 ( ERROR ) |
| | | create empty partition 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) | | | path: /dev/sdd1
start: 2048
end: 488396799
size: 488394752 (232.88 GiB) |
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| clear old file system signatures in /dev/sdd1 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) | | | | write 68.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 0 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) |
| write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 67108864 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) |
| write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 250058108928 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) |
| flush operating system cache of /dev/sdd 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) |
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| set partition type on /dev/sdd1 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) | | | |
| create new ntfs file system 00:00:37 ( ERROR ) | | | | mkntfs -Q -v -L "NexStar" /dev/sdd1 | | | Cluster size has been automatically set to 4096 bytes.
Creating NTFS volume structures.
Creating root directory (mft record 5)
Creating $MFT (mft record 0)
Creating $MFTMirr (mft record 1)
Creating $LogFile (mft record 2)
Creating $AttrDef (mft record 4)
Creating $Bitmap (mft record 6)
Creating $Boot (mft record 7)
Creating backup boot sector.
Creating $Volume (mft record 3)
Creating $BadClus (mft record 8)
Creating $Secure (mft record 9)
Creating $UpCase (mft record 0xa)
Creating $Extend (mft record 11)
Creating system file (mft record 0xc)
Creating system file (mft record 0xd)
Creating system file (mft record 0xe)
Creating system file (mft record 0xf)
Creating $Quota (mft record 24)
Creating $ObjId (mft record 25)
Creating $Reparse (mft record 26)
Syncing root directory index record.
Syncing $Bitmap.
Syncing $MFT.
Updating $MFTMirr.
Syncing device.
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Failed to sync device /dev/sdd1: Input/output error
Syncing device. FAILED |
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