Why does my Wifi cut out whenever I plug in external hard drive?

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JJ8520

Hello, I'm trying to figure out why my WiFi cuts out every time I plug in my external hard drive to my laptop. At first I figured that it might be a power drain or something to that effect, so I then tried to plug it in to a powered USB hub but I get the same results. WiFi instantly cuts out. I do not loose my WiFi if I plug in a normal flash drive or my iPhone. This only happens with external hard drives. I have 4 of them and tried all of them with different USB cables directly to the laptop and the powered USB hub but get the same results every time. I'm running Windows 10 on an HP laptop z

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