Can't access my NTFS formatted hard drive anymore on my Mac OS?

I downloaded this app back in November because of my new transfer to a MacBook Pro from a Windows PC.
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/26288/ntfs-for-mac-os-x
It worked fine back in November but now I am trying to back up my files and I cannot access anything in my hard drive. What do I do?
I have already redownloaded the NTFS software. I am not too computer savvy can I get any help please?

I am sorry to say that it very well might be. Chalk it up to a learning experience. Even with Paragon to allow writing to NTFS there are still dificulties with some applications that use features of HFS+ to do their magic. How are you backup up to that disk currently? Time Machine is known to have problem with NTFS.
My backup plan, rather then backing up a backup, is to do two backups using different software for each. One backup is done with Time Machine and the other is done with SuperDuper.
Since the SuperDuper backup is a bootable clone of my system disk, that allows me to recover my Mac by rebooting from it. So that I am able to continue in case of a disk failure very rapidly.
The Time Machine backup is good for recovery of files when I need to do that.
Either one can be used to do the same functions as the other except that it would be a little slower.
I like the idea of using different software for each since I think that gives me additional protection.
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