Portable Hard Drive and Windows 8

Hello, I have a Toshiba portable hard drive model #HDDR640E04X.  It works great on a Windows Vista 64 bit machine and has for years.  However, now that I have a new laptop with Windows 8, it will not read the drive.  It has downloaded drivers from Microsoft when I have plugged it in via USB.  It will recognize the drive and assign it a drive letter, but there is no way to access data.  Any ideas?  I looked for drivers or other patches on the Toshiba web site for this model and none were available.  I'd prefer to be able to use this on both computers and not have to buy a new portable hard drive.  Thanks.

This device cannot start (Code 10)
Does the drive have it's own power supply or does it depend upon power from the USB port?
If the latter, I suspect the port does not supply sufficient power.
To confirm that, see what happens with a powered hub like this one. 
-Jerry

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