r/toshiba

PLEASE HELP ME PLEASE IM GONNA CRY

So i have a 1T Toshiba portable storage hard drive. It was working perfectly fine but then one day it just started lagging and crashing my file explorer like crazy and every time I tried ejecting it I would get a notification saying “Windows can’t stop your volume device…” (see images).

Next day I’m trying to access the hard drive again but now it won’t even let me in it and says “location is not available…” and “you need to the disk before you can use it” (see images).

I’ve used about 95% of the hard drive available storage.

Some things that happened before it stopped working that may have caused it???:
- I was moving around 6 files of around 10GB total to my desktop to then render them as smaller sizes. I would then delete the larger versions on the hard drive and then copy the smaller versions onto the drive. I did this multiple times with multiple groups of files.
- I did accidentally drop the hard drive from about 2 feet off the ground when moving my laptop from my bed to my desk and it unplugged. The unplugging without “safe ejecting” shouldn’t be an issue because I have the quick eject setting thing on that says I can just unplug without using the safe ejecting icon. But the dropping may have caused physical damage to the drive idk????
- Things started getting laggy/glitchy when I noticed 1 specific file would not copy from the hard drive to the desk top and it kept saying “location not found” for this file. This was after the drive dropped so I’m thinking it’s most likely the dropping that caused some kind of issue…
- I stopped trying to retrieve that file and just rendered the files I was able to get into smaller sizes but the hard drive kept lagging file explorer so I literally couldn’t copy it back into the hard drive. I was able to delete the original larger versions but not copy my new smaller versions back into the drive

Things I’ve tried
- I updated all my windows updates including the optional ones and my driver is up to date. I restarted the laptop too and none of this worked to fix the problem.
- I tried using R-Studio’s demo to copy my data from the drive to another one but it was only able to retrieve 130GB but I definitely had much more.
- Disk Management says it’s healthy

*More Device Specifications in Images*
- Problematic Drive: (D:)
- New Drive Im trying to copy my files into: (E:)
- Original laptop: XPS 15 9520
- New Laptop I ran R-studio on and have the drives currently plugged into: Latitude 7390 2-in-1

Is it time to go to a professional? If so, who do you recommend? I have years worth of valuable family pictures and videos on here along with years of creative projects and need it back ASAP. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME IM BEGGING.

Hi everyone!

I have a Toshiba 2857 DF and I noticed there is no convergence ring. I’ve read that this can be the case with older or very cheap CRTs, but I’m surprised to see it missing on my Toshiba, given that it is a home cinema model.

Do you have an explanation? Can I still adjust the convergence if needed, or am I stuck with the factory settings?

Thanks for your help ! :)

i've been looking everywhere on the internet archive