Windows 10: a device which does not exist was specified

Hello, I just got a used 4TB sata hardrive from western digital and it worked at the start until I removed a volume that was less than the 4TB and replaced it with one called W Awesome drive with all of the drive's storage and after I formatted the drive it stopped working. I restarted my PC and then it did not appear in the disks & volumes tab in settings and in the device manager it appears as "Unknown device" and when I try to Initialize the drive it says "a device which does not exist was specifiedthe drive's backthe drive's frontthe disks & volumes in Settingsdevice managerthe e

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A device which does not exist was specified

I ran into this error - A device which does not exist was specified - while trying to access an SSD from Windows console (running a directory listing). I believe the sequence of events leading up to it was the SSD wasunplugged and replugged in after which I reran the listing from a console window already open on the drive.

The solution seemed to be to navigate to a different drive and back again (in console) and then the listing ran fine without throwing the error.

Problem solved (for me at least). But I wanted to ask this question so that others could discover a possible solution. I found only one other reference to this error (*) and the thread had been closed.

Thanks very much.

* correction: there are many references to this error - I only found a single result because I mistyped a plural: A devices which does not exist was specified

 

AMD Chipset Install Error: 1316, The Specified Account Already Exists

In Device manager, most of those from that list are signed as Microsoft drivers, probably for compatibility purposes, just like disk drive drivers.
These are only ones from that list that I can find that is signed as AMD.

 

a device which does not exist was specified

when i try to initialize Disk D: im getting '' a device which does not exist was specified '' error.

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