HELP!!! need to recover data from external harddisk drive

[Josenext]

There is someone on BA Expats by the name of Macdaddy that was bragging about his expertise with the apple platform. Good thing you have a recent backup huh?

Good luck.

[Gauntlet77]

My computer froze one night and I had to pull the plug to restart.

The computer (MacBook Pro) now says it doesn't recognize the external disk drive (HD) and won't mount it. It invites me to either initialize it or eject. If I initialize it, I believe I will lose all my data. I've tried to mount and repair the HD with the Disk Utility. I've also tried DiskWarrior and Drive Genius to no avail.

I know there are some very savvy computer guys out there, so this is my plea for assistance.

Anybody know a good data recovery shop here in BA? Or any other ideas or suggestions?