External HDD files readable on TV, but not on Laptop-Help

[jyothish.vijay]

I have a 2 TB external HDD with about 1.3 TB of data in it-predominantly videos and pictures. Since yesterday my laptop and other laptops and desktops i tried are unable to get into its folders or read files on it. If I click properties for the HDD , it still shows 1.24 TB data. I can enter into the HDD as well....but the folders could not be opened. Its giving a not accessible or available error. Screenshot attached. All the folders you see on the screenshot gives this error. None of the (few) files you can see there will open or could be copied into my laptop. And I can't copy anything into my HDD as well. I created an Ubuntu bootable pen drive and tried to access the HDD and copy its contents. While going from within UBuntu, I still could not copy anything from the HDD, but was able to go into those folders for one level. But then I couldn't access any files or folders within still !!! (For eg: As you can see from the screenshots....one of the folders there is named "MOVIES". I could go inside MOVIES using Ubuntu....but couldn't see any files within it , it was empty).
I tried Ease US Recovery.....and it detected nothing.....screenshots shown.

Yet...if i connect this HDD to my TV, I can access all folders and play all videos and see all images.

Please help...what can I do?

https://ibb.co/gqJiH8
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PS: I have attached link to those screenshots....I am not sure whether it will work or not !

 

[asoroka]

The disk has been encrypted so it can only be read on the TV/DVD recorder.

This is to prevent you from sharing these files (copyright etc).

 

[jyothish.vijay]

The disk has been encrypted so it can only be read on the TV/DVD recorder.

This is to prevent you from sharing these files (copyright etc).

it is my disk. I did not encrypt it. WHy do you say so?

 

[asoroka]

Not familiar with your system, but on my system I have to 'register' my USB on my video system before I can use it.
If that is not how your system works then I am probably wrong.

Has it ever worked before and this has just suddenly happened?

 

[jyothish.vijay]

Not familiar with your system, but on my system I have to 'register' my USB on my video system before I can use it.
If that is not how your system works then I am probably wrong.

Has it ever worked before and this has just suddenly happened?

I was using it for over a year now on my laptop. Now its not working on my laptop, whereas the videos and images can be seen when conected to my TV

 

[asoroka]

ok so somehow your directory structure has been corrupted.

Need to think about this. I assume that it was fat32 format?

 

[asoroka]

I assume that your disk is formatted as FAT32.

I suspect that your primary FAT (File Allocation Table) is corrupt. Not sure why your TV can still find files though.

Have you tried something like

https://www.icare-recovery.com/download.html

have you tried checkdsk /F /V /R

 

[jyothish.vijay]

I assume that your disk is formatted as FAT32.

I suspect that your primary FAT (File Allocation Table) is corrupt. Not sure why your TV can still find files though.

Have you tried something like

https://www.icare-recovery.com/download.html

have you tried checkdsk /F /V /R

Its NTFS.....Last week a ran a scan on it with few recovery softwares...and magically the files are visible and readable now

I tried to copy the files on to a new HDD.....partly successfull....but some of the files cannot be copied or moved.....probably the files are corrupted or are on bad sectors of the HDD