Windows 10 Windows 10 does not recognize external hard drives or flash drives

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When I start up my computer it will recognize an external hard drive if it is already plugged into a usb or is immediately plugged in following login. If I disconnect the external hard drive to switch to a different one then the new hard drive will not be recognized and will not be shown. This problem also extends to flash drives. Any external hard drives that I have attached do not show in the Disk Manager. When I open the drive in Device Manager I get the following message:"Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware because a previous instance of the device driver is still i

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