diff --git a/pkg/volume/plugins.go b/pkg/volume/plugins.go
index 58ef46940d1..43783a7e86f 100644
--- a/pkg/volume/plugins.go
+++ b/pkg/volume/plugins.go
@@ -746,11 +746,10 @@ func (pm *VolumePluginMgr) logDeprecation(plugin string) {
 // If it is, initialize all probed plugins and replace the cache with them.
 func (pm *VolumePluginMgr) refreshProbedPlugins() {
 	events, err := pm.prober.Probe()
-	if err != nil {
-		klog.ErrorS(err, "Error dynamically probing plugins")
-		return // Use cached plugins upon failure.
-	}
 
+	// because the probe function can return a list of valid plugins
+	// even when an error is present we still must add the plugins
+	// or they will be skipped because each event only fires once
 	for _, event := range events {
 		if event.Op == ProbeAddOrUpdate {
 			if err := pm.initProbedPlugin(event.Plugin); err != nil {
@@ -767,6 +766,11 @@ func (pm *VolumePluginMgr) refreshProbedPlugins() {
 				"pluginName", event.Plugin.GetPluginName())
 		}
 	}
+	
+	if err != nil {
+		klog.ErrorS(err, "Error dynamically probing plugins")
+		return
+	}
 }
 
 // ListVolumePluginWithLimits returns plugins that have volume limits on nodes