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It was only possible with all of your advice and suggestions; it has been fair learning curve for me. Thanks for those links. I will likely wait till next month's paycheck to buy a HDD given that currently, with the persistent live Ubuntu, I am able to do most of my work while saving to another USB.
I kept Badblocks running overnight and it has hit over 20000 lines on the text file! I can't remember how many bytes to a block the NTFS HDD has, but that seems a fair chunk of the drive.