Lost footage on my lacie

hey
I edit video on my emac, with FCP, I took my lacie (hard drive) to pick up some video footage from a PC, I could read the footage on my mac no problem, but couldn't save anything onto the Lacie, now I went back again to get more footage and the PC wouldn't read my lacie and now my emac won't. Any suggestions as to getting my mac to read the Lacie without reformating it, because I will loose all my footage?

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1) Cut the footage on either end and was left with 12 seconds i needed.
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