MBP Not Reading HSF+ External HDD/Bootcamp Win7 Is ?!?!

Hi - this is a strange one to me. After creating separate partitions (NTFS/FAT32/HFS) for my LaCie Ext-HDD, I been able to shuffle data between my Mac and PC computers (teach in a lab). However, one day - for no specific reason - all drives except FAT32 would not read. But what's more odd is that the HFS is readable only in Win7. What's more strange is that the NTFS drive is not, and is only readable in OS X (via some 3rd party software).
Has anyone experienced an HFS HDD that's not readable in OS X (Snow Leopard)?
Any advice on how to retrieve my data in OS X (the BC-Win7 is not large enough to support the data transfer) ?
Thanks so much in advance!
ACV

I have a similar problem... tried to install winXP on an external HDD (read in FAQ after there you are not suppose to ><)
anyway after I installed XP my mac cant find any bootable partitions (had OSX 10.6.3 and Win7 working perfectly)
the wierd thing is when I boot off the intallation CD I can only see the Win7 partition and it says its empty.. even after I removed the HDD from my mac and hooked it up as an external HDD to my mac desktop the Win7 partition came up empty aswell but the mac partition was nowhere to be found...
I really need my data back from my Mac partition I dont really care about what was on the Win7... please someone tell me there is a way!!

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