I have recently found a hardrive at my lab about to be thrown away. I asked the IT guy if he had any docking station to spare so I could check what's on the drive. It worked perfectly fine. I have a dell XPS, on Windows 11, and I use a USB 3.0 to USB C adapter, because I don't have any USB 3.0 ports on my laptop.
2 days ago I bought my own docking station, which is a SABRENT one (SABRENT USB 3.0 to SATA External Hard Drive Lay-Flat Docking Station for 2.5 or 3.5in HDD, SSD). But now I cannot read the hardrive. I have checked in the device manager and the Sabrent is there. I've tried looking for updates but everyone is up to date. In the drive manager, I've looked at the *unknown* disk detected, tried to initialized it but it says "Request failed due to a serious hardware error on the device" (Echec de la requête en raison d'une grave erreur matérielle de l'appareil, in French). I didn't touch the disk between the moment I've tried it the first time on another docking station but in the same set-up and today. What am I supposed to do to make this work? (I have no idea how anything works I just want to use this hardrive for personnal use).
The drive is a Seagate, ST31500541AS, 1.5TB
EDIT: Yes, everything is plugged in properly. Also someone had the same issues at this link.