External (SSD) storage mounts right after ejecting - endless loop

[Windows 11]

After ejecting my external storage, the usual message shows "safe to remove hardware. The USB Attached SCSI (UAS) Mass Storage Device can now be safely removed from your computer". As expected.However:Followed after a split second with a new explorer window popping up from the re-connected storage device. And another message balloon from AutoPlay "There's a problem with this drive. Scan the drive now and fix it". This results in an endless eject and mount loop.. I suspect this is also why the drive is not being quickly mounted on OSX (by not removing the flag on the drive for proper removal).

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