Problems with portable hdd

[bangand]

I seriously need help, my external hard drive has crashed. It's an Simpletech 120 gb usb hdd, its formatted in fat32. I tried sharing some files with a PC user, but it wouldn't show up, except for a sec while removing the device. Afterwards it wouldn't mount on my MAcbook. Diskutility doesnt work. It reads "could not read boot block" and then :"The underlying task reported failure on exit". What can i do? Is the data lost? What program could help me out? The data is really important to me.

regards Anders Jensen

 

[IMcD23]

Try using Data Rescue first: http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
if Data rescue doesn't work, try using ipartition: http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iPartition.php

 

[admiraldennis]

Seconding Data Rescue for Mac (or a variety of PC programs -- just do a Google search).

The data is really important to me.

Then why the **** were you keeping your sole copy of it on an external drive using FAT32?