I cannot view files on my external hard drive

I have an external seagate hard drive.
When I plug it in, I can only see half of the files.
(the new ones)
I know there are old pictures and videos on it,
and the data amount accounts for it.
I have tried to verify and repair the disk.
It said that nothing was wrong.
I have recently updated to Mavericks.
My mac pro is about 3 years old
and my Seagate disk is about 5 years old.
How do I view these old files?

Can you see the files on another computer? Since you have it formatted to also work with Windows, can a Windows computer see them? If so, do you have enough disk space to copy the files off to somewhere else?
The last line of the screen shot states partitions need to be updated. If you can salvage the files, I would reformat the disk.

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