The hard drive was working completely fine until it suddenly wasn't. Throughout the day, there were no problems, however, after not using the drive for a couple of minutes, suddenly it disappeared from windows explorer. After opening device manager I was greeted with the following error:
Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (Code 43)
The USB set address request failed.
I have tried multiple troubleshooting steps but nothing has worked so far. Here's to hoping that someone has a fix that works.