I like RECUVA since it won't write to that drive and possibly overwrite what you can't lose.
Again, if you write to the drive, the chances of getting files back goes down.
As to your question if this happens to others, yes it does.
I'm on vacation. I brought my laptop and an external drive mainly to download pictures. I was taking my external drive and attaching it to a USB port on the Samsung DVD player here to show pictures on a slide show. When I did that all the pictures were on the drive. Then I put the drive back on my laptop to load more pictures onto it -and 150 pictures from yesterday disappeared from the drive. All the pictures were only loaded earlier in the same day. The rest of the drive seems to be okay. I have not loaded anything else onto the external since I noticed the problem. I was able to recover some pictures with a recovery program that took deleted pictures off the camera card. I'll have more time when I get back home to figure out how to get them back - if possible. But if anyone else has any ideas so I don't screw up anything before I make any attempts, I would appreciate it. (and if anyone has any idea what might have caused these pictures to disappear, I am curious, since I had done nothing but take the drive out of the DVD player USB port and put it into my computer USB port. (And if it matters - using WIndows 10 64 bit)
Thanks in advance

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