locating external drive on mac?
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Do you have antivirus running on your PC? If not go get the AVG free antivirus software and see if you can solve that problem. At that point you should be able to back up your data and reformat it using the PC if it does in fact show up there.
From the mac side of things, you should be able to click on the drive or the partition listed beneath it and click the Mount button in the toolbar which should make it show up on the desktop where you can back it up.
I have gone the route in the past of booting a windows machine to a command prompt and backing the drive up that way by doing the command line thing. That can sometimes have low level access to drives when GUI tools fail to make the connection. From the command line you can copy the files to a directory and then format it right there.
There's also some brute force tools you can get to fix your problem. Not sure whats good on PC but on the mac your best bet is usually DiskWarrior which costs a lot less than say Drive Savers.
But really your first problem is the virus. Its somewhere on the drive so even if you do back up you're likely backing up the virus as well. Fix that first if you can. Best of luck.