External SSD not showing in macos

Hi. I've come into possion of a seagate 1TB ssd drive. The cable is USB-A, and im using a Macbook Pro M1 2020 with touchbar. I want to find and use this SSD, but am having issues.

When I plug it in, either through a USB-A to USB-c adaptor, or through my USB dock, nothing happens. I have checked in finder and finder settings and everything is checked and should show up. When i open disk utility, it remains on the loading screen indefinitely, unless I unplug the SSD, at which point it immediately loads. I've tried to format it through recovery mode, but the same issue happens - it opens disk utility, and doesnt load until i remove the SSD. The SSD was wiped but not reformatted the other day and is fully funcitonal. I think that it may still be formatted to windows in some way, and needs reformatting, im just wondering whether I can do that on my laptop? Thanks