My LaCie hard drive keeps saying it was disconnected but it was not.

I have a MacBook 13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008. But since it has a small hard drive (which I am replacing soon to a 1 TB internal hard drive) I use an external hard drive as well. It's a LaCie 300 GB external (I bought it years ago). I keep it always connected to my MacBook unless I move it from my desk to work at the couch etc. However, lately every time I power up my machine it says that "The disk was not ejected properly..." However, it was never taken out of the port. I only have 2 USB ports on my MacBook so I use a "Flexible USB 4 Port Hub with Splitter Cable" that I bought on Amazon.
Whether I have the cord from the external hard drive in a port by itself or whether it's going in through this port hub splitter it still gives me the same error. I have many priceless (to me) files on this hard drive and I'm worried that I'm going to have data loss. Can anyone tell me if I should be concerned? Also what should I do? I am (not so patiently) awaiting a new Western Digital 1 TB SATA II 5400 RPM 8 MB Cache 2.5 inch bulk/OEM notebook hard drive. However, with my schedule I don't know when or how long it will take to replace. Any suggestions on how to fix this problem would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

If the LaCie enclosure can be opened, you can always get a new enclosure and place the drive in it. Chances are there is nothing wrong with the drive.
My LaCie two big triple has two slots and each drive can be replaced or removed. The enclosure originally came with two Seagate drives which failed after one year and now I have WD drives in it.
I would never recommend LaCie drives after owning this one.
Also, the reason that I am able to continue using this LaCie drive in my black MB is that the MB does not sleep drives when the computer sleeps as my 2010 MB does. Upon waking the 2010 MB, I would get the message you are getting.

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-the problem is not with the cord or 800 port on the hdd as it works on another computer
-the problem is not with the 800 port on my macbook pro as other 800 devices work on my laptop.
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Thanks for the link. I don't think that is the issue though. I have tried formatting the drive in a variety of formats all of which I know are acceptable on my macbook pro, and tried a wide variety of them.
The G4 is older than my macbook pro so it doesnt have any formats that wouldn't be readable by the newer OS.
The drive doesn't even show up in my disk utility on the macbook pro so I can't reformat it from the macbook pro itself. I imagine anything I will have to do to the drive format-wise will have to be run from the disk utility on my G4 tower but can't think of anything else.
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