What the hell is going on with my EXT HDD?

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Hey!
I have this stupid EXT HDD which OSX will now not read.
Its a Seagate 1TB one. It has backups of all 6 of my computers along with years of projects and home videos on it. Now I can only use this HDD on Linux and Windows. Why is this? I have tried to repair it under OSXs Disk Utility but it says I should backup the hard drive and reformat it. What the hell??? So they are saying that I should backup my backup drive? And then I should then probably back up my backup backups drive I suppose.
Sorry, beginning a rant here...
Anyway, how do I get this to work under OSX again? It was working fine yesterday, I unmount it every time Im finished just like I should.
The last thing I did to it was back up Mirrors Edge onto it (Under my Linux box running wine to download the game via Steam as I was doing work and could not reboot my iMac into Windows.).
Everything went fine. Un mounting went fine. Everything fine. So yeah...
What do I do?
To get OSX to even see this super importent drive I have to plug it into the USB port (duh!) and then plug it out and plug it in again and it will see the drive and says this:
The disk you inserted is not readable by this computer.
What the hell?
I could back up my backup drive, but my brother would hate that as he hates running things in the background while using it..... His PC is the only computer in the house with a 1TB HDD..
I should probably mention that this is a FAT drive. Reason being is so that I can read it under Windows without using any of that Mac Drive software.

Have you changed any drivers lately on Mac OS Machine?

Might be worth doing a file system check in Windows similar to chkdsk H: /r or fsck in Linux.

Last edited by beers on 16 Apr 2012, 10:35 am, edited 1 time in total.

Well, I go to my families static caravan every so often. Lately the site has been so full... And their electric couldn't take up to all the use it was getting... And my iMac (which I take with me as my Macbook is unreliable now ) kept on turning off due to the power cuts..
But my EXT HDD wasn't plugged in at the time or in use. So I cant imagine that would do anything.
I have tried repairing permissions and everything and still nothing.
Thanks for the reply!
Edit:
Derp... Sorry, I thought you said drives... Nope. No drivers have been changed.

I would ask on the appropriate Linux distribution forum whether or not what you did could cause the problem, and how you can find it/how to solve it.

Hmm, but It works in any other computer except my iMac.
Plus, I have taken the 2.5 HDD out of my Linux box and put it into a dock and plugged it into my iMac and it failed to recognise it. Same story on my Bootcamp partition.
It works fine on everything else. My iMacs USB works with everything too, just not HDDs... SD Cards ad everything are fine.
Weird.

No, I meant, since the last thing you did with the drive before it began malfunctioning was something with linux, ask about whether the thing with linux could cause the drive to be unreadable on a Mac. It seems like that could be the case, if you took the internal drive from the linux machine and the Mac also could not read that. Could be a Linux file system vs Mac filesystem issue.

Oh, I see.
Yeah, ok. Il go to the Kubuntu forums and see what I get there.