Hard drive not being recognized

I have a 5 day old Seagate Goflex desk 2TB HD for my Mac.
It was working fine before, but today I plugged it in and wasn't able to access it.
It can be found in my disk utilities but is greyed out. Someone help me! I don't have the data from this HDD backed up

Maybe try rebooting your machine.

Yea try a restart. Also, what format was it formatted to? Did you format it when you first got it? Perhaps try reformatting it with your mac.

Tried restarting, It wasn't formatted and I have data on the drive so if I format it it'll all be gone!

Grab a copy of TechTool Pro and use that to repair disk. You may have some kind of directory corruption going on. Also have you tried to use Disk utility to repair the disk?

Yup says it cannot be fixed.

I get the feeeling that your drive needs professional help. Best work out wether the data on the drive is worth the spend & chalk the lack of backup up to experience learned the hard way.

Read this sticky about recovering photos

https://photography-on-the.net …/showthread.php​?t=1066003

and then also look at this thread

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=670801

The above thread talks mainly about recovering images from the card, but it also talks about recovering data from a hard drive.

I was in a similar situation and I used GetDataback for NTFS from runtime.org and I was able to recover almost all my data.