Error wiping device: Failed to probe the device '/dev/sdb' (udisks-error-quark, 0)

I connected my 1 year old hard drive from my old PC to my new PC, at first everything worked. Then I wanted to format it and went into the "Disks" programm. There I selected the option "Format Disk", then I selected "ATA Enhanced Secure Erase" for Erase and "No partitioning" for the Partitioning option. It formatted for a while, but after about 6 hours the process spontaneously stopped.

After restarting my computer, I wanted the hard disk to format itself further, but then an error occurred:Error wiping device: Failed to probe the device '/dev/sdb' (udisks-error-quark, 0)

I tried the command fsck, which also returned an error.

$ sudo fsck -f /dev/sdb
fsck from util-linux 2.36.1
e2fsck 1.45.7 (28-Jan-2021)
fsck.ext2: Input/output error while trying to open /dev/sdb
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a valid ext2/ext3/ext4
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2/ext3/ext4
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 <device> or e2fsck -b 32768 <device>

Output from sudo fdisk -lu /dev/sdb:

fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: Input/output error

If it helps, this is a SATA hard disk.

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