More Simpletech EHD Problems!

So, I posted about 4 months ago or so regarding my mac not reading my external hard drive.
I tried repairing the disk through disk utility, and this is what it said:
Verify and Repair volume “STORAGE”
** /dev/disk3s2 (NO WRITE)
** Phase 1 - Preparing FAT
** Phase 2 - Checking Directories
Unable to read FAT (Input/output error)
/Movies/DVD/REQUIEMDREAM_R/VIDEO_TS/VTS_011.VOB: Cluster chain starting at 5284070 ends with cluster marked free
Truncate? no
size of /Movies/DVD/REQUIEMDREAM_R/VIDEO_TS/VTS_011.VOB is 1073657856, should at most be 402685952
Truncate? no
/Movies/DVD/DRIFTERS/VIDEOTS/VTS_042.VOB: Cluster chain starting at 5204808 ends with cluster marked free
Truncate? no
size of /Movies/DVD/DRIFTERS/VIDEOTS/VTS_042.VOB is 1073709056, should at most be 600670208
Truncate? no
** Phase 3 - Checking for Orphan Clusters
Found orphan cluster(s)
Fix? no
Found 25699 orphaned clusters
Free space in FSInfo block (686207) not correct (695421)
Fix? no
48745 files, 22253472 KiB free (695421 clusters)
Volume repair complete.Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.Error: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.
This is frightening, especially since my entire music and picture libraries are stored on this drive.
Help please!!!
-Geoff

Hi betterlead;
It sounds like your EHD has errors that are more serious then Disk Utility can repair.
I personally don't know of any tools to repair FAT files systems which your error message indicate you are using. My suggestion would be backup up as much of the files that have not been corrupted yet. Then reformat to HFS+ and restore what files you are able to salvage.
Allan
Message was edited by: Allan Eckert

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