Hard Drive Not Recognized/Not Accessible

Hello,
i have a MBP late 2011, and the hard drive it initially came with, i'm using it as a 2nd drive, with the data doubler set up. My primary drive now is a Samsung SSD.
All of a sudden, I cannot access the drive. Initially I named this drive to "Production" and now when I start the disk utility/computer has renamed it to "disk1s2". (it does not show up on the finder, it'll only show up on disk utility)
So for now what I did was internally remove the disk, and added it to an internal hard drive enclosure, just so that I can plug it in and out via USB as well as check if it pulls up on my windows tower, and sadly it didn't.
Now, When I plug it in to my MBP, the disc will start spinning. Also, Disk utility does show that its plugged in. However the name "disk1s2" is greyed out. I tried clicking mount, & No luck
Lastly, I tried to verify and repair that disk and didn't get too much luck with that, I will post a screenshot below
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you for taking out the time to read my message
with kind regards,
Rich

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