All flash drives have stopped working in Windows 11

[Stephen McNutt]

I'm trying to troubleshoot for my father-in-law who has a fairly new (4-5 years old) HP running Windows 11. His six flash drives (one Lexar, the rest SanDisk, ranging from 1-128 GB) have stopped being recognized on the Windows computer, but they all still work fine on his MacBook. Yesterday one was still working, but now none of the six works.I've tried all five USB jacks, of course. And the printer and the webcam (both USB) work fine in any jack.They all appear in Device Manager as Universal Serial Bus controllers >> USB Mass Storage Device (and as Other devices >> Unknown devi

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