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    maybe you have a bad usb cable Commented Jun 22, 2019 at 2:58
  • @jsotola would a bad USB cable only work sometimes but not other times? surely the fact that it was working for a while means the USB cable is okay? Commented Jun 23, 2019 at 4:30
  • A cable could work "sometimes" if one or more of its connections were poorly soldered (for instance) and conducted or not, depending on how the cable was flexed. I'd certainly call that a bad cable. You could try flexing the cable near either cable-head, or (less likely, but who knows?) along its length, and watch your PC for detection or not. Or simpler: try another cable, especially a known good one if you can. If one works, and one works "sometimes", well .... Commented Jun 23, 2019 at 17:21
  • Thanks @JRobert I'll try with a couple different USB cables Commented Jun 23, 2019 at 23:04