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External hard drive not showing up after sleep and disconnect (Code 38
I have a Windows 10 laptop with a couple external hard drives connected to it. I disconnect the hard drive and put it to sleep and take it to work. After coming home I reconnect them. I can hear the sound effects of connecting and disconnecting, but they never show up in my computer, not even in disk management.
I can see them in device manager. Universal Serial Bus controllers -> USB mass storage device, with a yellow exclamation mark. I checked and the error message is :
Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware because a previous instance of the device driver is still in memory. (Code 38)
This can be fixed by restarting the computer and I googled for a solution to no avail. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers.
So if anyone knows how to fix this, please tell me so I don't have to restart computer all the time, thank you.