External Hard Drive problems...

I don't know if this topic has been discussed before or not but here I go.

I moved all of my iTunes files (tv shows, movies, music) to my external hard drive in order to save space on my hard drive. Since I have repeatedly disconnected my external hard drive without ejecting it, my macbook no longer reads the external drive as it should. I am not able to repair my external hard drive but can sometimes access the data (when it lets me). I am afraid that I am going to lose all of my iTunes data that I have paid for.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Does the drive show up in Disk Utility when you plug it in but can't read it through Finder?

- Simon

No. The disk will only show up if I go through disk utility and even then it says it "Write Only". I would like to just wipe the drive and start from scratch but then I'll lose all of my iTunes content.