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If anyone is having problems with their Toshiba canvio external drives heres a way to fix it

Anonymous
2025-04-24T15:41:27+00:00

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Fix:+Toshiba+External+HDD+not+recognised+in+Windows+10/110171

ifxit has a guide to fix the drive not being read, step 3 is where you want to go and fix it but you need to have disk management open to do step three so therefore go to the search bar and type disk management and then look for the unallocated section for the drive, it should have the most storage, you want to create a new volume and then set it up and then the drive will start working again I'm unsure if it works on 11 or not but I am assuming it would

heres a video as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InBp1in3di0&feature=youtu.be

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  1. Airbus A350 7,350 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2025-04-24T17:20:08+00:00

    Hello,

    Thank you for the resource :)

    I'm sure it'll help lots of people!

    Have a nice day!

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