Windows 10: External Harddisk

Hello guys! Please help me with this, I will try my best at explaining the problem. First of all, I have a Seagate expansion hard disk 1TB HDD in which I have really important files. And it worked perfectly until 1 hour ago, when it was plugged in the computer USB port works well and, by accident, it was plugged out. And when I put it again, the PC didn't recognize it. The PC made that sound when a device is connected, but the disk does not appear in File Explorer nor Disk Management. And to get more a complicated story, when I plug it in, I can't restart my PC. The window with "restarting" is standing on my screen for 1 hour and nothing happened, and I plugged it out, it restarted instantly. I tried to plug it in another PC, same problem there. All can be found about it is that the small icon in the taskbar appears, and in 'devices and printers' it is at 'unspecified'. I got you 3 photos:





That's all that can be found on PC about this hard disk. Tried to google it but nothing useful in 3 hours.


I mean I am kind of sure that the hard disk is virused, but how can I know certainly and what can I do about it? If you need any more info, feel free to ask me. Thanks in advance! Have a nice day!

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I have a external harddisk connected to my pc using USB. This drive contains personal files which I want to add to file history. I simply want that everytime I connect my external harddrive to my pc, that file history backs up the files on it to a location
on the network. How do I do that?

* I have file history working for files on an internal harddrive

* I did add my external harddrive to the Documents library

* I tried adding the folder on the external harddrive using the "Add a folder" using the windows 10 settings. But the folder seems to dissappear from the list after a while.

Another detail: the disk is encrypted using DiskCryptor. Everytime I connect the drive windows says it has to be formatted. When I mount the drive by providing the key to DiskCryptor the drive becomes a valid one.

 

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