Ministation is not accessible anymore but still running

[ice2strike]

Hi everyone,

 

I really hope someone can help me. I have a Ministation 1TB external harddrive black color. I have formatted it to a Fat so i can use it on windows and MAC.

 

After 1 year now and 948 GB of used space i gave it to a friend for 2 days who had a windows. When i had the drive back i experience the following:

 

1. i can´t copy anything unto the drive anymore. Copy process starts but always stucks at 8MB or 63.7 MB

2. I tried Repair Disk with Disk Utility from Mac, it showed Disk fixed

3. still no luck with copy stuff on to the drive

 

When i connected the drive the next day it did not show up anymore (drive still running, constant noise and green light). I tried accessing it with Disk Utility, where it was still showing the drive, but it couldnt see how much space was used or not.

 

So what might have happened? 

[davo]

Reformat it via disk utility.

[ice2strike]

will the data still be there or lost with Reformat? I would highly appreciate a solution with keeping the data, if not possibly, ok. It shows that the disk is not mounted anymore.