Disk Utility froze during partition resize.

Hi, i have a 1tb western digital external hard Drive which i use to store all my media and backups.
I set the partition to 950gb for media and the other 50gb for time machine to use to backup. This 50gb got used up pretty quickly, So i went and opened disk utility, deleted the 50gb time machine partition and then resized the 950gb partiton to 900gb so i could have 100gb for time machine.
So my 950gb media partition had over 550gb worth of files so i knew it would take a good few hours to peform this task. so 6 hours later i came back to my imac to check the progress and saw that it was in the "shrinking" stage and the bar was at about 95% complete.
So the next time i checked my imac was when i woke up the next day, it has now been 24 hours since i started and the bar is still on 95% complete and in shrinking stage. I thought it would of been completed by now but i carried on waiting. after 48 hours of waiting and the bar still being on 95% i figured that the disk utility had obviously crashed so i had no choice but to force quit disk utility.
I had a feeling that this would of somehow messed my hardive up and oh look.. it has. When i click on my external hardrive now all i get is a finder window appear with no results and a little spinning loading bar in the bottom right corner of the finder window. Left it for 15 mins but it still didnt load anything.
I am now in the middle of a "Repair disk" operation but it has been 12 hours and the bar is stuck at about 75%.
Any other ideas on whats gone wrong and how i can fix it? i have alot of important files on that hard drive and thousands of pounds worth of media. I will not be happy if ive lost that due to a fault in mac OS X.
Thanks for your time.

Unfortunately West Digital external drives have a very poor track record with Macs. I would recommend replacing it with a higher quality drive, something like a OWC, Lacie, or G-Tech.
In addition putting your backup and additional storage on the same external HD is a recipe for disaster. The reason is very simple, if that drive dies (and all eventually do) you will lose both your data and backup! Here is a recent article from or Macworld that discusses backup strategies, while I think the author is a little over the top having redundant backups is a very wise idea. Because external HD's are relatively inexpensive there really isn't any reason not to.
Roger

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