Hard drive toshiba & Mavericks

I had a problem with my STOR.E BASICS 2.5 1TB Toshiba hard drive. I formatted in exFat format for using it both in Mac and Windows and I put on it all my files and everything went good. I ejected and reconnected the drive many times, because I knew there were some problems with Mavericks running hard drives.
Suddendly today I connected the drive and my MacBook doesn't detected it nor in the Devices window nor in the Utility Disk. I say it again: the hard disk worked fine, but SUDDENDLY It doesn't anymore. I had so MANY IMPORTANT files on it for my work.
Also I noticed on the Console this message when I connected the hard disk
10/11/13 04:06:59,000 kernel[0]: USBMSC Identifier (non-unique): 2222391176CF 0x480 0xa009 0x3712, 2
I have a MacBook 13'' aluminium late 2008 with OS X Mavericks on it (I didn't have any problems with this OS on my machine, until now).
What can I for the data on the hard disk and to make it works again ('cause I bought it just 3 days ago -.-')?

It sounds like your drive has died.
On rare occasions when Disk Utility cannot fix a drive, TechTool might be able to. Techtool Pro 7
If not, then I'd return the drive for a refund.
If I have a really important file, I also back it up to Dropbox or iCloud.

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