> Now I have been trying to figure out what each of the statements
> mean but have come up naught.

These are the parameters which define the layout of the data
in the ntfs partition. Most of them are meaningless to the end
user.

> For instance what does Device state: 11 mean or what does Volume
> State: 91 mean ?

Only the Microsoft developers know. These may depend on the
operating system and its state, or be obsolete. They are never
used or updated by ntfs-3g.

> It is and was a pre-formatted hdd AFAIK/remember.
>
> inxi shares the following info. -
>
> info: Seagate RSS LLC type: Mass Storage driver: uas interfaces: 1 rev: 2.1
>            speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 0bc2:ab24
>
> The last one is probably the hdd controller details if that gives
> any more info.
>
> It doesn't give any info. on the state of the hdd :( or if it does
> I am not able to make sense of it.

You did not tell what you were searching for. If you want the state
of the hdd, you probably need "smartctl", ntfsinfo is about a partition
and files, not the whole disk.

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