Problem between My Passport hard drive & Mac Book Pro

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Hello to everybody!

I have a very big problem, and please somebody try to help me!

A few days ago I’ve taken My Passport hard drive from one of my friends to copy some folders on my Mac. 

But I have Windows 7, so at that moment I used W7, but on mac. So after i put HD in my laptop when I opened it, i’ve seen only the shortcuts, but not the actual folders. I was able to open them on my laptop, I copied everything I nedeed and took out the My Passport from my Mac.

After this my friend is unable to read any of his folders ever, on any PC.

It’s a very big problem, because he had all his life on that HD. 

All the memory of the HD is full now, I mean all 900 GB a used, so it means all files are still there, but we’re unable to read them.

So, the question is: how to recover all the HD, how to make again able to be read and opened?

Please, help me! 'Cause I’m feeling really bad about that!

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Hello,

Did you formatted the drive on the Mac computer by any chance?

What does it says in disk management? is the drive showing there? what’s the status?

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no, I didn’t format it anyway!

In the status it’s showing as usual, the only ubnormal thing is that all the folders became shortcuts. And I can read them from my Mac (but from Windows 7 only).

I think there’s some virus appearing on my Windows 7 on mac…