USB HDD not ejected properly...no longer recognized by Airport Extreme

I'm hoping someone can help.  I'm quite desperate as all of my DVDs are on this drive.
I have a 2 TB WD USB harddrive that I connect to my airport extreme to use as my iTunes storage.  Up until 2 days ago there have never been any issues.  I was messing around, cleaning up around the router and hard drive and the USB cable was pulled out of the harddrive.  Now when I plug the USB cable back into the drive, it is not recognized in the Airport Utility.  I installed an older version of Airport Utility and it shows the volume, but I cannot do anything with it.  It is also not recognized in finder.  If I plug the drive directly into my MBP, it mounts fine and is totally accessible.  What could have meesed up with the drive?  I have another 1TB drive that I tried and this is recognizable in Airport Utility and finder along with a USB stick I have laying around.  It is only the drive that has all my stuff on that is no longer usable.
If anyone has any suggestions I would be very greatful.
For what it's worth, I've tried everything I can find on here and the web short of reformatting the entire drive.  I can't do this as I'll lose all my "stuff".
Thanks in advance.
Marc

This is a user to user discussion area. So it is unpredictable as to when someone with a suggestion will respond to your post. An hour in the middle of a work day isn't a long time.
Since the card is recognized, there isn't anything wrong with that side of the card. If the card isn't receiving a signal, either the RF side of the card has failed, the antenna wire isn't connected properly, or the antenna in the PowerBook has failed.

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