Samsung S6 not recognized by Win10

I ran into a problem connecting my phone (Samsung S6) to my laptop. It used to work fine and I could debug apps with Android Studio but now Windows tells me the USB device is not recognized. I've tried a number of things to no avail. The back story is the phone stopped charging and I rebooted it to a Black Screen of Death. The only way to get it working again was to wipe the phone's system cache and now Win 10 doesn't see it. Any help would be appreciated. I've tried:

Rebooting everything

Reinstalled the latest Samsung USB driver (1.7.43)

Turing off Nord VPN

Different ports and cables

Turing off Developer mode and USB debugging

Ran Windows update

Ensured the USB mode is MTP

Android studio knows there's a device connected but can't use it.

Solution 1:

This is a driver issue.

Go to device mananger, uninstall the drivers completely, reboot the pc, and install the correct drivers from the samsung website.