I've been Googling for solutions for the past seven hours. My life lives on this disk. The thing is, I was about to back up and of course, this happens! I want to also mention that the computer reads the disk. I know this because it appears in Disk utility. But its grayed out. I tried to mount it and is says to repair it first. More @Wikipedia
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