My PC (Windows 10) isn't detecting any external hard drive that I plug in, regardless of which USB port I use. How do I fix?

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I film gaming videos on OBS on my PC, then upload them to a hard drive to edit on my Macbook because I have Final Cut Pro. Abruptly a few days ago, my PC stopped detecting my external hard drive. The hard drive lights up and I can feel it whirring like it's on, but it doesn't show up in my file folder. It also doesn't show up in disk management or in my devices under disk drives. It's like the PC isn't detecting that something is plugged in at all. This extends to other external hard drives--mine is a WD 2TB HDD, and I tried a friend's XBOX 5TB HDD and it didn't read at all or show up in devic

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