USB External drive has become a storage place in windows 8.1

I let windows make my Toshiba USB drive become a storage place. Now it's as two different drives, one is called TOSHIBA USB (F:) and one is a storage place, I made it a storage place and now it's full and I tried to remove it from storage, and that's when
it became a TOSHIBA USB drive again, but, it's located in storage as two different drives and it's also in removable drives list as a Toshiba drive. How do I get it out of being a storage place, it's still got files on it that I don't want to loose I was using
it as a backup drive and I made it a storage drive. How do I get them both out of storage drive and back where it goes without loosing my files that are on it. I've got a 1TB Seagate external USB drive that is formatted and I may make it a storage drive and
use it for file history and some back up. Should I do that or should I just let it be a USB drive and use it for file history? Either way how do I remove or detach my Toshiba drive from storage? Please help I've tried everything I know. Thanks, Brad.

Hello and Thanks MeipoXu, Well it's to late! I got frustrated after searching windows and microsoft websites and forums, so, I chatted with a damg geek squad "agent" and he talked me into doing what I knew I could do four hours before I got them
and had him do a remote assistance. Well to make a long story short we faut for a while and he led me to believe there was no other way except to reformat the drive and loose all of my files! I got ahold of them thinking they would have a solutiion to the
problem not reformat and loose everything! I'm very upset with the geek idiots and I've left terrible feedback as I do every time I talk with those idiots. All may not be lost though, I also have a WD MyCloud 3TB network drive and I'm hoping and praying that
most if not all of my files are on it. I sure wish I'd have waited till I got an answer here before I contacted the geeks. I don't know anything about powershell at all, but, lately I've been trying to learn some of the commands and what you can do with it,
and it seems like it would be very useful and I hope I can learn it. It seems very complicated right now and I don't understand it all, I even tried some commands I found on the forum to try to dislodge my drive from the storage space and pool and they did
not work. I typed the command word for word I don't know what I did wrong. I sure want to learn it though it would save me a lot of headaches. Thank you very much for the reply though I just wish I'f have waited to hear from someone on the forum before I contacted
the geeks. Thanks again! Turbo930.

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