New USB Flash Drive not showing up in File Explorer or Disk Management

[Microsoft Windows]

I have tried two new USB Flash Drives now from different brands thinking the first one was a dud but this issue persists. I have a new USB Flash drive I am trying to use on my Windows 11 PC. It shows up in Device Manager but when I open the properties to update the driver it says, "Windows was unable to install your General USB Flash Disk USB Device". Basically it can't find any drivers and I did update windows and I had one update that did not fix this either. When I go to Disk Management it doesn't show up either, I thought maybe it was allocated and that was the issue. But it's not here as

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