I Can No Longer See Files On My External Hardrive

I'm trying to import some files from my external HD into FCP and here's what's happening: I shot some video on HDV and had to import it onto an old iMac via iMovie HD. I saved those files and the iMovie docs onto an external HD (using 314GB on a 1TB HD).  The first time I loaded the drive onto my iMac (2009 10.6.8) I saw everything, but once I tried to open one of the two iMovie documents it wouldn't open in iMovie 2008. So I downloaded iMovie HD and was able to open it once. The next time I tried, the file wouldn't open. Then I noticed that the icon for the doc had dissapeared from the Finder, along with a folder that conatined the indivual quicktimes.  i know they weren't erased as I stil see that 314 BG of memory are being used, and I can still open one of the two iMovie docs.
There's footage I need to get to that I imported from my the HD camera into iMovie. I would just reimport the tapes into FCP, but the camera was a rental, and I don't have access to a HDV recorder. The whole idea was to import the footage and save it to an ext HD so I could just drop it all right into FCP and start working, but so far this seemingly strightforward task has become a huge headache.
If anyone can help me with this it would be greatly appreciated.

You have some sort of issue with the external drive, I would use a powered USB hub first if it's not self powered.
Next I would be looking at purchasing software to direct recover your files from the 1's and 0's of the bits themselves on the external drive as it appears your directory or something is hosed.
Software that comes to mind is DataRescue $99 which you can download and test first before buying, then send the recovered files to another blank external drive.
Once you've got your files recovered, then your all set to mess around and experiment.
Try to access the files with the program version that originally created them, I'm not all that up to speed on iMovie, but I do know there are issues with using older Apple software versions with newer version altered files.

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