Need help restoring HDTC610XK3B1 usb drive to original factory condition

A program on my computer, unknown to me, reformatted my drive. I lost all of my personal files thanks to this, and using a recovery program, Recuva to be exact, did nothing for me. I do not know any other options that wont cost  me anything, so I am giving up.
I reformatted the drive back to NTFS and ran into two problems. First of all, the drive will not show up in file explorer, however it does show up in device manager. Second, I cannot find any way to restore the original factory installed files and software on the drive. How do I solve this problem, and is there a way to restore these original files back onto the drive?
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You don't tell which version of Windows you have access to.
I would remove all the partitions and data from the drive and repartition/reformat it.
   See DiskPart.
Maybe you want this software. (I wouldn't.)
   Toshiba Portable USB Hard Drive Software Installer for Windows
-Jerry

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