LR not seeing my external drive in Library Mode but does at Import

Hi Team,
I filled up a WD drive and got a new Seagate drive that I've put the last few batches of photos on. Wanting to visit a few photos on the WD drive (that remained in the same USB port as always), I noticed LR wasn't listing it in Library Mode. If I hit Import, it lists it and acts like none of the images have ever been imported before.
I also have a 3rd larger drive that backed up the WD drive. In library mode, LR does see that drive.
I am wondering how I can get the WD drive located by LR again ensuring that my edits to the images are there as well.
FYI, I did do a catalog backup of the Seagate drive. Perhaps that new catalog only backed up the Seagate drive and can't see the WD drive? (but then why would the larger backup drive...)
Thanks for any help you can lend.
Daniel

Thanks for the reply. I have imported and edited tons of images from the WD drive. So definitely been imported from before. It shows up nowhere on the list. Not as the original drive I had been using, nor as a drive with ?s. Somehow, though, my other 2 drive letters/names did change. One I was able to point to the old location. The other is asking me if I want to combine/merge as the folder already exists. I cancelled this request.
I did try to use the previous catalog from File-Open Recent. None of the drives showed up. No collections,etc. So I went back to the latest catalog. Same issue exists.
Thanks so much.

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