I think I noted a Linux recovery at http://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/lost-and-found-or-the-storage-forum-sticky-354911/ which has other titles we try.
But we never try to recover the drive. We only try to access and retrieve files. If the content can't be lost, you call up drivesavers.com
-> Given all the posts over the years I have to ask where the backup copy is.
Hi,
I have a Toshiba Canvio Desk 4TB. It is failing to load up onto any Windows PC computer I plug it into. When going into 'computer' it appears as 'Local ****' but nothing else and when clicking on it it will either crash or take a while to load. When going into devise manager I can find it (named again as just local disk). I can get into properties etc. the only notable thing is that when I go onto 'Volumes' there is nothing stated and I tried to populate to no
avail. Have tried uninstalling and reinstalling drivers, sometimes when i disconnect it asks if I want t format the drive.
I have seen that there is some software I can use to fix this but want to get some suggestions before I install anything that could potentially be critical to one of my computers.
Can you help me?
Some help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks.

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