LaCie Little Disk Has Been Corrupted?

I have been happily using my Lacie Little Disk 300GB HDD to back up my MacBook data although not as the designated Time Machine as I use it with PCs as well. Since the latest update to 10.6.3 when I now plug in my external HDD it shows one file which is named a mixture of unrecognisable characters. Also showing that the hard drive has the full 300gb available to write to.
Has this update of Mac OS X somehow linked it to Time Machine as the same thing shows on a PC?
How to I revert to using my Lacie Little Disk as I was previously and will this restore the data that should still be on it!???
Any help on this would be great!

Laurieparr wrote:
I have just checked those things even though I have always checked no to this drive becoming my Time Machine.
For Partition Map Scheme it says: Master Boot Record
And for Format: MS-DOS (FAT32)
Then whatever happened, it wasn't OSX trying to format it for Time Machine.
For future reference, if you don't want to use Time Machine at all, you can stop those prompts. Open the Terminal app (in your Applications/Utilities folder). Be *very careful* with this app. It's a direct link into UNIX, the underpinnings of OSX, but without the protections of OSX.
In Terminal, the prompt looks like this: user-xxxxxx:~ <your name>$
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defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine DoNotOfferNewDisksForBackup -bool YES
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That same section is saying I have no files or folders and am using just 1.8MB out of the 320GB!
Thanks for the suggestion but I'm guessing it's something else! Any more ideas?
Something else has reformatted or erased it. (The 1.8 MB is the empty directory and partition map.)
You need specialized +Data Recovery+ software, or a service that performs the function. It's not cheap, and there are no guarantees.
The app mentioned here most often is +Data Rescue 3,+ but I haven't used it myself, so can't recommend it over any of the others.
Some of these have a free "trial mode," that will tell you if there's anything to be recovered, and perhaps recover a single file. For more, you have to pay the $$.
You'll also need another drive to receive anything it can recover.
Look for apps or services under +Data Recovery+ via Google, VersionTracker.com, or MacUpdate.com.

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