Hard disk damaged after turning off MacBook Pro

[clockman]

Hello, I have an external hard drive attached to my MacBook Pro. Today my MacBoor Pro freezed and I had to turn it off pressing and holding the power button. After turning it on the external hard drive didn't appear in desktop. I checked the disk utility that comes with mac and it shows the HD but I can't mount it.

I've tried the HD in a windows OS and it says it can't recognize it. It seems to be damaged

Is there any way to recover my hard drive?

 

[spinnerlys]

Couldn't you verify or repair the HDD in Disk Utility?

 

[No1nfoProvided]

Windows didn't see it probably because it can't see HFS+ formatted drives/partitions. Load up the OS X CD when booting up and repair permissions and repair the disk too.

 

[clockman]

Hi, I forgot to tell the HDD is in FAT32 format, so it should work on windows.

I can't repair it with the disk utility (it would erase all the disk).