USB external drives not mounting

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In the last couple of weeks my USB external drives have stopped mounting when I plug them in. The notification sound when a USB device is plugged in sounds, the activity lights on the drives power on and I can hear them spin up as normal, but the drives themselves do not appear in explorer, device manager, nor disk management. After 5-10 seconds the drives then power down.I have tried all the usual fixes suggested by troubleshooting - updating/uninstalling/reinstalling drivers, uninstalling/reinstalling devices, disabling USB selective suspend settings - but the only way Windows recognises an

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