Sandisk Extreme SSD stops being recognized after a while

[IsraTech Support]

Good day,I've got a Sandisk Extreme external SSD which I use for periodic data backups (as cold storage), thus is lays around on my shelf most of the time.With the recent Windows update (Windows 11 Education Version 23H2 OS Build 22631.3810) I've noticed that after a couple hours of my PC being idle, if I plug in my SSD, it does not get recognized. In the file Explorer, the device shows up and the drive letter is assigned, but the drive is inaccessible with the error message "Access is Denied". Here's how the drive shows up in various other areas:- "Create and Format Hard Disk Partitions": "Vo

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