Windows 10: File Explorer stops responding when I plug a specific External Drive into my Windows 10 System

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    File Explorer stops responding when I plug a specific External Drive into my Windows 10 System


    I am running Windows 10. I have an external 970 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD 1TB in an Asus External Case. All of a sudden, unless I boot with it in the system, plugging it in with a USB-C cable or a USB 3.0 cable causes the File Explorer to stop responding and I have to Hard Boot the system... which I don't like doing. This doesn't happen on other computers. I am able to plug it in and it works fine... I have done so on two different laptops and another computer running Windows 10. One of the laptops was running Windows 11. I have attached a Disk Management view of the drive. I'm unsure of all of

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