Problem with external Lacie disk

Hi!
I have some serious problems with my Lacie 250GB Porche disk.
The disk shows up on my desktop but it does not allow me to read and write to it. Apple's disk tool does not manage to fix the disk. I have tried running Diskwarrior, but it gives me an error saying that the disk could not be rebuilt due to a disk malfunction. I am now using Techtool Pro 4.0.4. I have not used Techtool before, only DW. Im running a process called "Recover Files Using Directory Data"...is this the one I should be using? The manual was'nt all that clear about this...Please please help me as I have 44GB of client projects on this disk.
Thanks in advance,
Tom - Norway

Hi Richard!
Thanks for your response!
I have now bought Data Rescue II from ProSoft:
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/datarescueinfo.php
It seems that the problem is my external harddrive and not the machine. I get read errors when I try to open projects in Photoshop / Indesign etc.
There are of course companies that can retrieve my data, but thats like my last solution cause they cost loads of money
Hoping that Data Rescue can clone my data to this new hd. The process seems to be taking days... 165.2 hours left and it has been working for two days now
Tom - Norway

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