If anyone knows any tricks to getting a toshiba portable drive recognized by PC running win 7 64 bit, I'd appreciate any help. I've got important data that I assumed I'd be able to retrieve, Toshiba-a company I had heretofore respected-offers no help through official channels

I've had issues with Win7 losing the ability to see/mount usb drives (thumb drives or other). The solution I have found (works for me and others with this problem) is to remove the USB devices/hubs in your device manager, and then reboot. On reboot, they will be reinstalled and generally the drives will now work. Over the past year and a half, I have had to do this several times on my Win7 laptop at work. The "fix" was suggested by our IT support specialist... and he has to support hundreds of these systems. :-)

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