NEED HELP BADLY W/ USB DRIVE AND iBOOK!!!

I have an ibook 1.2 ghz and store everything (music,pics,etc.) on a Seagate USB 100 GB hard drive. Well, last night, the usb plug came out of the hard drive and now my ibook does not recognize my drive. When I plug in my drive, it says " THE DISK YOU INSERTED IS NOT READABLE BY THIS COMPUTER" and 3 choices INITIALIZE , IGNORE or EJECT. However, I downloaded a demo called Filesalvage, and it showed all of my files were still on my drive. Everything I own is on this drive 60 gigs of music, 15 gigs of photos. Can someone please shed some light on whats going on and how I can restore my drive back to normal?
I do own Tech Tool Pro 4. Can I use Tech Tool without spending 90 bucks on File Salvage? Any help is greatly appreciated.

I opened Disc Utility and none of the repair option buttons are available. Is their maybe another repair utility? Here is the disc info:
Name : ST910021 A Media
Type : Disk
Disk Identifier : disk1
Media Name : ST910021 A Media
Media Type : Generic
Connection Bus : USB
Connection Type : External
USB Serial Number : CBA987786118
Partition Type : FDiskpartitionscheme
Writable : Yes
Ejectable : Yes
Mac OS 9 Drivers Installed : No
Location : External
Total Capacity : 93.2 GB (100,030,242,816 Bytes)
S.M.A.R.T. Status : Not Supported
Disk Number : 1
Partition Number : 0
Disk Identifier : disk1s1
Mount Point : Not mounted
Connection Bus : USB
Partition Type : WindowsFAT32
Writable : Yes
Capacity : 93.2 GB (100,027,597,824 Bytes)
Owners Enabled : No
Can Turn Owners Off : No
Can Be Formatted : No
Bootable : No
Supports Journaling : No
Journaled : No
S.M.A.R.T. Status : Not Supported
Disk Number : 1
Partition Number : 1

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