So I have a very big problem.
About three months ago I needed to install fresh windows into a new laptop, so I used my Samsung M3 Portable 1TB hard drive as a bootable usb, as I didn't have a real usb i could use at the time.
I moved all of the files to my other computer and did everything else on the Samsung hdd. When I installed windows and everything, I wanted to reformat the portable hdd into a usable one. And I did such a big mistake, being a dummy, I formatted it into FAT32 instead of NTFS that it should've been. So later on thinking everything was okay I moved the files from my other PC into the samsung and everything was moving like it should've been, the speed was good and everything was fine. Thinking everything was done I tried to see if files moved out of the samsung hdd the same speed as before and to my surprise it didn't. Files moved from the samsung hdd into my pc veeery slow - like 1 picture in 1 minute, the speed fluctuates from 30mbs down to 0 like every 2 seconds and doesn't come back up for atleast 15 more seconds before coming down really fast.
Now to fix this I know that I need to reformat it again, but the problem is I NEED EVERY SINGLE FILE FROM IT, which is over 200GB, so what should I do? I am really hopeless at this point and any help would be really appreciated. Maybe I should just bring it to the proffesionals or can I fix this an home?
Some things that may be helpful:
I didn't touch (plugged in) the samsung hdd for 3months so it shouldn't be corrupted as I read somewhere.
I am trying Photorec right now and it doesn't work, I tried searching two times, first time it recovered one photo and now the second time I used different settings or something and I hope it recovers more.
I didn't leave the files on my PC, just moved it into the Samsung HDD
