My computer ignores my external harddrive

alright, so i accidentally started to unstuff a .sit file onto my external harddrive and my computer froze, so i had to restart my computer. When it rebooted it said that there was an error with my hard drive and asked me what i wanted to do. I chose ignore, not knowing that it would ignore it forever. Is there any way to get my computer to quit ignoring it, and recognize when i have the hard drive plugged in. The hard drive is a maxtor one touch usb 2.0.

I can't do that because the hard drive won't mount, so it won't even show up in disk utility. I did an experiment and plugged in the HD to a pc and the pc recognized it, but i couldn't open it unless i formatted the drive. I'm going to bring it to work and see if i can get results on my mac at work. i'll post the results.

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I use a new iMac running Snow Leopard with a 500 GB external WD drive.
-I looked the other day to find that time machine had failed, and when I looked at the backups, there had not been a successful backup since September 2009. I think this is when I installed Snow Leopard...
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Error: (-8062) SrcErr:NO Copying /Users/Shared/Music/Compilations/(album name)/(song name).mp3 to /Volumes/Time Machine 20100504/Backups.backupdb/Riskin's Computer/2010-05-04-222232.inprogress/F9243DA..(many letters and numbers)...D19/Macintosh HD/Users/Shared/Music/Compilations/(album name)/(song name)
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how do i get my macbook to search for my intues folder/music that was on my external harddrive, rather than on the macbook itself? i think the macbook needs to know to search the external hardrive, rather than the macbook itself.
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my biggest fear... losing, or having lost ALL of my music and photos from the external harddrive.
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help. please. and thanks for listening.
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