Disk Utility doesn't find any of my USB drives

A few weeks ago my just stopped showing any of my external drives when I plug them in. I can not see them in Disk Utility or in Finder. A while ago I had TUXERA NTFS installed and today I got those messages after plugging one of my USB drives. Is it possible that the problem comes from this program and should I delete it or what should I do in order to be able to work with my drives again?
Thank you

If you want a reliable and better NTFS driver, because you need to maintain NTFS to share the drive and use it with Windows, then I strongly suggest and use Paragon-Software NTFS for OS X (v. 11 at this point Im pretty sure, supports Mavericks).
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