My hdd is saying that it has nothing on it?

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Okay so im kind of freaking out right now. Last night I had to format a old laptop hard drive so I can try get it to work with a mac. I unplugged one of the sata power cables and sata cable from one hard drive and plugged it into the laptop hardrive. I couldn't get it to work in the end and now when i plug in the other one it has nothing on it ? It just says 'Local Disk (E:) . This is a 1 tb hard drive and had all my videos saved on it.

Can someone please help?? When i try to open it it says to format it but im not doing anything unless i get a answer
 

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Can you please link me with one ?? If you can also a video on how to do it please
 

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[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeU0xkY6w44"][/video]
 

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Right so it took forever but i used Recuva and I think all of my files are back however none of them are in a folder. I have a few games on it and it looks like a complete mess and cannot find anything. Any fixes?



 

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right so i have no joke been trying to get it back for 9 hours now. I choose the option where it said put in folder but yet when it got done its not and there is just random files everywhere. Any idea??



 

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Use ease us recovery tool which help you to recover whole partition
 

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I think I’ve formatted it too many times now that the folder structure is gone. Every time I tried to get it back it would come back but just dump the files everywhere. I honestly just gave up and accepted that I lost it as I wasn’t spending any money on it. Just wish i knew how I did it ...