Unfortunately the way my computer case is set up removing the faulty hardware would be a real big pain, it would be necessary to remove a whole lot of other things just to get to the USB, and the case is a hard to work with cluttered up mess. This is why I prefer home built PCs...I've found them to generally be so much easier to deal with in so many ways.
Fortunately I was able to solve the problem without removing any hardware, I found out that wasn't the issue. What had happened (and I feel a bit silly now for overlooking this issue, which was actually really simple to fix) I had installed a new hard drive into my computer a while ago, and then installed Pro Tools. Well it ran fine for a while, but then this started happening. Well the issue was I had forgot that I hadn't yet installed the firmware updates along with Pro Tools.
I installed my firmware updates, and problem solved (well at least it seems to be, time will tell).
Hopefully someone else finds this solution useful. Simple things like this can unfortunately be easy to overlook sometimes.