Thumb drive and hard drive not recognized after upgrade to Ventura

I have a thumb drive and 2 external hard drives that I have used with my MacBook in the past. One of the hard drive has files on it that I access from time to time, only with my MacBook. The other hard drive is used solely to back up my MacBook. I use the thumb drive to transfer files from my MacBook to a Windows machine. After I upgraded my OS to Ventura, my MacBook no longer recognizes the thumb drive or the hard drive that I access files on. It still recognizes the one I use for backups (I use a USB to USB-C adaptor for the first two devices; the backup hard drive has a USB-C port). I reformatted the thumb drive on my windows machine, but it did not resolve the issue. I don't want to reformat the external hard drive because it has a lot of content on it that I don't want to lose.

Any ideas? Thanks.