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You did your own research and resolved the issue you faced. I appreciate.
You also took time to share your experience that could help others. Good and welcome.
That is the pat and now the punch.:)
Even in your case the error was associated with an external USB device.
"That error is usually associated with an external USB connected device." No misinformation from TVeblen as quoted by you.
Next Disk 2 in the Disk Management will be the DR3 in the error message. Very correct and no misinformation here too.
I haven't used dd anytime and therefore would not comment on its efficacy to pinpoint the problem device as you have propounded except stating I generally abhor advising the command line way of doing things. It may suit a geek but not an ordinary average user and my common sense tells me that knowing that it is usually associated with connected USB devices one can safely pull those out to determine which one is causing that problem. Again that is not the solution but only exploration since the device itself is not a problem (in most cases).
Coming to the solution, you assigned a different drive letter and presto your problem was resolved. When you did a google search on this error message, I am sure you must have also come across "ghost devices" being mentioned and their elimination as one possible solution.. Windows gets confused with these non-present devices and at times and in rare cases even changing the drive letter also will not resolve the problem.:)
One such case here USB Thumb Drives not recognised (not drive letter)
In general, removing the non-present devices by doing a drive clean up as here USB Thumb Drives not recognised (not drive letter) in most cases should resolve this problem.
( It is a different story if some programs are set to look for a specific device with a specific drive letter and in those cases one has to be alert and check whether the intended device is getting the same drive letter and change it if necessary before running the program or resort to other means of setting the specific drive letter to that device automatically.)
What has gone in here should definitely help those looking for a solution for this problem and I wouldn't have entered this thread but for your post. So thank you for that.