USB hard drive not accessible from Ubuntu VMware guest on Windows 10 host

Hardware configuration

1. USB external hard drive (previously internal); here there are three partitions (i) Ubuntu, (ii) Windows 10, (iii) data;
2. internal SSD; here there is Windows 10 and the virtual machine Ubuntu mounted thanks to VMware.

Problem

The Ubuntu virtual machine is not able to detect the USB hard drive. My goal is to access to the Ubuntu partition (the one I mentioned in point 1 above) from the Ubuntu virtual machine. See the section figures of the problem below.

Additional information

The Windows and data partitions on the external HD can be accessed by the Windows 10 (the host) on the internal SSD.

Figures of the problem

Below the out ome of the lsusb command before connecting the old HD.

Below the out ome of the lsusb command after connecting the old HD.

EDIT: the command lsblk gives the same result both when the HD is connected/disconnected.

EDIT 2 (don't consider the seagate external HD; it's another one)

1. External HD connected to the host (no presence in Disk Manager)

2. External HD connected to the guest

EDIT 3: I'm using VMware pro 16. The command dmesg gives this output when the external HD is disconnected. Instead the output of the command lspci -k is this one.

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