Hard Drive Reads in Disk Utility but not in Finder

I have a Seagate FreeAgent hard drive that is configured to NTFS. I use software to read and write to this on my macbook pro. I have plugged my hard drive into my macbook this morning and it will only read in Disk Utility, and not show up at all in Finder. I have plugged it into another macbook and have the same thing. Tried to do disk repair and it said it was repaired and operating normally, but still not opening in Finder. I also tried it on a Dell running XP and same thing, doesn't open as a folder but shows as operating normally in the XP's disk utility equivalent. I have tried finding an answer elsewhere but can't come up with anything. Besides taking it for data recovery, is there anything else I can do or try to fix without compromising the data?
Message was edited by: jazmyn96

You might get more help were you to post in something like the MacBook or OS X forum. This forum is for OS 9, an archived Apple Macintosh operating system.
That said, it sounds like your drive might be dead. When you say that you can see it in Disk Utility, you mean that it shows up in the column on the left? When you repair it, can you hear the drive spinning up?
Can you try making an image of the drive to see what happens?

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