Usb shows up as local drive F

[Windows 11]

I have a Western Digital My Passport Ultra usb drive that started making a bunch of irritating noises so i unplugged it and now it shows up as local drive f and becomes inaccesible thru explorer. I have tried different data recovery software and all of them including disk management just loads forever until i unplug the usb drive another thing i noticed is when i restart explorer my desktop background becomes grey and all of the shortcuts dissappear until i unplug the drive i mostly need to recover some files of the drive if anyone has a solution that would be great

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