Problems with external hard drive

Hello. Due to having to do a system restore in my laptop and ended up loosing all my data, i adquired an external hard drive, and stored everything there, leaving the use of my laptop storage to really basic stuff. I should've known that, with my luck, the eternal hard drive ended up having a performance issue too, because apparently it was accidentally shut down during a mayor data transfer. The path became corrupted, making all the data inside it unreachable, if not through a special program, that might or might not work. I had to format it, too, loosing absolutely all my files, again. I am trying to find out if there is a way to recover the files, but until then, I might not be able to get to drawing because all my SAI files were there too. I will try to get it done quickly, but this is most likely to take some of my time, at least for the next couple of days. To those people who have asked for requests, I'm sorry for the inconvenience, and I promise I will get to work on them as soon as I am able to.