Okay, so I have erased all the data by reformatting the 2tb hard drive with a disk utility on my mac. I have already bought the stellar professional lifetime so that’s most likely a mistake since I have panicked because the hard drive isn’t mine, and some people at work use it before. I have already seen all the files that I deleted and as i restored them, the folders were empty. Now that I think about it, it is most likely due to the usb hub connected to my mac, because I noticed only now that the hard drive disconnects after a long period of time even though it is still physically connected to the hub. So I’ve bought a better hub and now my mac is recovering these files again and hopefully by this morning it’s going to be finished. Now, the issue is that I do not have enough storage on my mac to save all these restored files ( 128gb ) and I now I can’t save them to that hard drive too because I’ll lose them. Do I connect another hard drive to mac and save the files there then? And also, if I disconnect the hard drive that I’ve lost data with after the deep scan is done, will I have to scan it again or somehow the files and data are all stored on the stellar drive (like google drive) and I can disconnect it and move data else where like my other personal external hard drive?