WD Elements not showing up anywhere but Disk Utility

Ok so I got my MacBook Air and WD Elements External HD for Christmas 2013. I have been using both nearly everyday since then and they've been working perfectly, no faults. Except this morning, when I plugged in my HD, I found that I couldn't access it at all, but it showed up in Disk Utility. I really need to get this problem fixed, with out losing any of my files. This HD has all of my files on it, including all of my photos. It is 1 TB. Thank you.

First, just to make sure, Go to file at the top of the desktop under file/ preferences/ and see if show disks are still checked.  If so run disk utilities if you haven't already done so, repair the disk and the preferences. See if that helps.

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