I am using Toshiba Hard Drive 593400-E 320 GB since last year. suddenly it failed to run properly. If connected with windows pc, it does not explore or open files/folders, instead give message for format. I can't format it because very important data in it. Any solution to retrieve data

SOURCE: driver problem

Hi Vicient,

I have the following questions to evaluate the problem.
1) What's the port your harddrive supported? Is it standart IDE cable or SATA.

I have a hardrive utility software that can detect and access any type of harddrive but you need install it at running windows.

Please email [email protected] and dont forget to used the subject "Driver Problem" if sound interesting for you.

Sincerely,

Philip

Kevin Groce

• 216 Answers
• Posted on Dec 24, 2009

SOURCE: Toshiba (MK1031GAS) 100 GB Hard Drive - Cant be viewed in My comp

The first thing you need to do is go into the Control Panel, then double click on Administrative Tools. After that, open up Computer Management, then go to Storage, then Disk Management. This is where you will see all of your drives listed. Be extremely careful in this section because you don’t want to screw up your main hard drive.
What you are looking for in the Disk Management area is your new hard drive. If you only have one hard drive, it should show up as Disk 0. Therefore, your new drive should most likely be Disk 1. Underneath the name Disk 1 it should say Unknown, the size of the disk, and Not Initialized. Right click in this area and you should get a pop-up window. Click Initialize Disk and it should only take a couple of seconds.


Once your new hard drive is initialized, you will still have to format the drive before you can use it. To format, right-click in the column to the right of the Disk 1 label and then click New Simple Volume in the menu that pops up. From here, you can allocate how much of the drive you want for a new volume, what drive letter you want to call it, give it a name, and finally format the hard disk.
Formatting the hard drive may take a while, depending on the size. My 500 gigabyte drive took nearly an hour to format, so don’t be alarmed if your's takes a while. Once the format completes, your new hard drive will now show up in My Computer and you can start putting files on it.

SOURCE: Toshiba MK8034GSX Hard disk Drive Problem

sounds like you'll need to reinstall the operating system, from the recovery cd...or use F8 for safe mode, and see if it's a virus issue

SOURCE: Toshiba 500 GB External Hard drive cant be detected by windows xp

yes you could simply format the harddrive in Fat32 using your macos that would be the best solution but don`t forget to backup your data by copy pasting the files on your mac or something else and after that to move them on the external hdd again to be available on the windows machine

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SOURCE: Toshiba MK1234GAX 120GB hard disk creating problems

Hello, verified if your hard disk is properly installed in the closure, don't forget to format your hard drive in NTFS. if your problem persist maybe need to check your USB connections in device manager.