URGENT! WD 1TB portable harddrive need to be formatted for win7!?!

a week ago my harddrive suddenly can’t be read on windows, after pluged into a mac

it has been working for windows for nearly an year, and it can also transfer data to mac or pc and still remain no error

but now i was told the mac can read it but the window can’t even access the harddrive. and in order to use the harddrive window told me to formmat it, which i couldn’t.

the harddrive contain important business datas, and this is the only copy of the data. 

seeking for a solution and hopefully this will be answered ASAP. thanks

You can use HFS Explorer to retrieve the data and continue using without formatting

if you want to format after getting the data follow this steps

http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3865/session/L3RpbWUvMTM1MzM0MTIyNi9zaWQvSnJ5YnFHYmw%3D/kw/format/session/L3RpbWUvMTM1MzM0MTIyNi9zaWQvSnJ5YnFHYmw=

i have tried with that before i left my post here, however it said it can’t find nothing

as in no such device or couldn’t access the harddrive

any other recommandation?