ITunes causing disk damages, other Itunes folder than defaul

It's the second time my external Firewire disk is crashing in 2 years time, after ITunes reorganizing iTunes Folder in external disk.
From OS versions 10.2 to 10.4, the disk is unmountable again, but visible by DiskUtility this time. i have this error: "Verify and Repair disk disk3s9
Volume check failed.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
1 HFS volume checked
1 volume could not be repaired because of an error".
I'm trying to get other softs to sort this out. But i'm looking for a command or something powerful to recover my datas from the external Firewire disk containing ITunes folder and unvaluable datas. Any consistent infos are welcome. Many Thanks

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