So how is it.

Similar experience as what I had.

went away from home for two hours and I was back, the browser I was using at the time firefox was very slow and at that time it was loading my...

Try a technician and ask them to fix the drive for you. It sounds a hardware problem not a system problem.

Drives are not reliable (damaged, virus, dead, etc). Should back up data multiple times....

is it normal that people can't get 100% of files back.
I got only about 70% back. The rest are just 0 kB and full size but damaged.

And by the way I am backing up data daily and have 2 antivirus software working together. One of them is Kaspersky. To prevent virus attacks that can wipe off all data and operating system.

ok forgot to check the "more lost files (raw)" folder.

Now just recovered the avi wmv flv mpg mp4 mkv sub folders from more lost files raw folder and it's 1.45 TB. About 75% are full sized and...

It looks like it was infected by a virus that wiped out all folders and files and registries of the OS so I couldn 't download anything.

Probably have visited a webpage where someone put a virus...

Actually didn't get most of them back.

The recovery software found more files 5.6 TB out of 1.7 TB lost.
but I didn't find most files cause for example on C folder downloads only found 122 GB....

Ok problem solved.

I just went to an IT services office/shop a few hours ago. Before I had been there, I tried the drive on 2 computers: one on win 10 and the other on win 7 and different usb...

So no media means the same way as a DVD/CD drive that is empty (i.e. not putting a disc in it).

So the computer knows there is an external drive enclosure put in but not the drive inside the...

All my C folders were gone when I was on Windows 7.

This is why I took the drive off and made it external drive.

I am now on Windows 10.

But it seems my comp cannot recognise the drive under...

Currently have an internal HDD running windows 10.

Before it was on Win 7 but the I took it off and made it as an external drive because all of a sudden all files (C drive files were deleted by...