External HD blues

Ok, so my time machine external HD is a lacie 500GB connected by USB and with it's own plug into the wall power supply(plugged into a power strip, not directly into the wall, of course). Last night when i went to sleep I shut down my McBP and it the process of shutting off OS X froze (the screen went grayer and i got the "hold down your power button" error message) I didn't much care since it was in the process of shutting down anyway, but now my external HD is not being recognized, well actually only the mac partition isn't being recognized, the 32GB FAT partition to give me more space in bootcamp is still good to go.
I've tried to repair in disk utility only to get "invalid sibling link" 6 times (3 for each attempt to repair). If I have to wipe this it will suck since my iTunes library and a back up of my DVD library are on it in addition to my time machine back up. However, I really don't want to spend any money for extra software such as diskwarrior. I have all the DVD's here and I can extract all the music from my ipod, i just really don't want to (but i'm currently in college and my time is worth <$9/hr, so $50 is too much for me to save myself an afternoon recopying those DvD's from their physical disks).
anyone have any clue how I can fix this?

kingofanarchy wrote:
I've tried to repair in disk utility only to get "invalid sibling link" 6 times (3 for each attempt to repair). If I have to wipe this it will suck since my iTunes library and a back up of my DVD library are on it in addition to my time machine back up.
If your TM backups are in their own, exclusive partition, then you can erase just that partition with Disk Utility (in your Applications/Utilities folder).
If not, then yes, you've got a problem. I'm a bit surprised that DU can't fix it, but if it can't, your only choice is erase it all. When you do that, take the time to zero-out the whole partition (select "Security Options" then "Zero Out Data." If that fails, you need to see if your disk is still in warranty, or go disk shopping .
And obviously, when you do get things working, you need to make a separate partition for TM. You'd have had trouble eventually anyway, as TM is a bit like the Borg: it will assimilate all the empty space it can.

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