Why wont my MBP read my external HDD?

I have an '09 MBP running Lion, and a USB EmBrace Bare Docking Station from ACCStation with a 2.5TB 3.5" MediaMax drive in it, and it doesn't work. On the description of the docking station it said specifically that it worked on both USB 2.0 and 3.0, on all versions of Mac OS, and supports drives over 2.5TB, 2.5" or 3.5" HDDs, and that it was plug in play. When I plug it in, it says can't read drive and I can Initialize, Ignore, or Eject. Initialize makes it appear in Disk Utility and opens the app, but it shows up as unmounted and it wont mount. It came with a disc the size of my thumb. I haven't seen a computer that could take that size disc in 10 years, so when the thing didn't work I had to dig up an old PC to run the disc. I copied the software to a thumb drive, then istalled it on my MBP from the thumb drive. But it still does the same thing.
The MediaMax drive I'm using has over 1TB of data on it, my life basically, I ripped it out of my iMac so I could sell it and now I don't have access to those files. It has Lion installed on it too. I spent $60 on this darn docking station, and the tech support at ACCStation is one of the worst I have ever seen in my entire life, I'm not even sure they even understand what I'm saying. Please, I need help. If this thing is defective I want either an exchange or my full money back, because if I just return it they only give me something like 50% credit back. I don't have the money to waste, moneys tight that's why I'm selling my iMac. I wish I'd gone with eBay, as long as you always read the fine print and do the appropriate research on the product I'm buying I'm virtually always safe. I really hope they didn't just steal my $60 and send me a defective product, or a product that works but is completely useless to me because they exaggerated its capabilities. -.-

Ah isn't this a question and a problem with some other hardware? I would think so. Send it back, get a refund. Or post on there forum for a workable answer.

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