Windows 11 External hard drive shows up as "Unknown" and "Not initialized"

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I have an external hard drive that I mainly use to store games, among other things, and it's been working just fine until now. Whenever I plug it in, I am not able to access any of the files that are on it through File Explorer neither am I able to download things onto the hard drive. I opened Disk Management, and when I scrolled down, instead of the name and drive letter I gave it, it simply shows up as "Disk 2" and that it's also "Unknown" and "Not Initialized", I have tried to initialize it but I can't click on "Initialize Disk". I have tried other fixes, such as unplugging it and plugging

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