Accidently unplugged a fairly new HD, now it does not work - "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer."

Hi all, I have an older intel Macbook running 10.6.8 - I recently plugged in my 2tb seagate external hd to look at some files and then accidently unplugged it with my knee. Now, the common message that you see above comes up everytime I plug it it. I've looked at the disk utility but it won't let me verify it or repair it... Is there anything I can do about this problem? I can't seem to get it to show up on a windows pc either...
Thanks for your help

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I had a suspicion on my OS updating, since I used to copy images from this SD Card to my computer on a monthly basis (I used to have Mac OSX 10.6.8, and a technician recently changed my Mac's operating system to 10.7.5 or so, as far as I can detail... It wasn't a god job what he did, but anyway)...
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