My hard drive is only 4 months old
150 gig drive and I only have 16 gigs of stuff on it mainly comprising of music and videos

So out of no where the shit deletes one of my music folders and now clicks and shit when my computer is trying to recognize it and shines that dumb ass red light

Eventually my comp recognizes it but it is annoying
coming out of a folder
it always freezes for like 10-15 seconds and clicks
it never did this before

So anyway, me not knowing shit about anything..I was fucking around and ran an error volume check or something

Now I can't see any of my folders or hard drive content but it still recognizes that there is 16 gigs being used up

Any way I can get my stuff back?
I tried using something called Zero Assumption Recovery but it got stuck going through the volume at one point for like 4 hours

Am I just fucked ?
Also, it was FAT32 or something
I read that that format isn't reliable
If I have to take the L can someone tell me how to start over and reformat it so it is NFTS or whatever the other format is

One more thing, if I do have to reformat will that make the hard drive start over and not recognize that there is still those 16 gigs taken up

I searched for answers everywhere but I really couldnt come up with much

One more detail in case it helps
Whenever I plugged the hard drive in my comp would usually pop up asking what I want to do ? Open the files to view in a folder, play content with WMV etc
Now it doesn't do that
I have to go to 'my computer' myself

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