MbP doesn't recognize external HD anymore!?

Hi,
I know there are some disscusions about this topic, but nothing is really like mine problem I think.
So my problem is; suddenly my mbp did not recognoze my external hd anymore. I was watching a serie from my EHD, and I wanted to click to the next episode.
My mbp said; 'external hard drive in 'save mode'. So I tried to get it back through disck utility, I checked my settings in finder. I tried to start up my mbp a coulpe of times. Tried to start it up in save mode, single user mode and all the other tricks. Nothing worked.
Then my seconds problem came up. My mbp got stuck in the save mode. It did not wanted to start up at all. So I made a appointment at the apple store to get it ficked. They said to me to try to start it up with the option key.  So that I can start it up from the right harddrive (witch was my external probably)
So I did that and it worked. Made a back up of course. But my mbp still does not see my EHD. no where. Not in disck utility or anything.
I know my EHD still works, because I see the light, and hear it somethimes. I also tried to let it work with a other usb cable and other inputs.(it did not work)
I want to try to solve this problem by my self firts before I make a new appointment at the apple store. but I need a little help from you guys.
Does anyone know how to solve this problem, anyone with experience with this?
Please help me out here please.
Thanks allready!

- Seems like the HD died.
- I do not understand what yo mean by
There is an offer to copy the contents of my hard drive to another hard drive, but only if I erase the target drive?????
How did you get the Disk Utility?
Did you try booting to Recovery?
OS X: About OS X Recovery - Apple Support
You should be able to select the disk and try to repair it. Nothing should be listed about moveing it
This is the Mac Mini desktop forum

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