AEBS no longer "sees" SUB hard drive... help please.

Purchased a new aluminum iMac, MacBook for the wife, AEBS, and a 250GB SimpleTech Pininfarina USB drive about 3 months ago. All have worked flawlessly until today. AEBS will not recognize the USB drive as of today. Powered everything down, started everything back up, still nothing. Tried using the AirPort Utility, nothing the utility does not show the drive at all. Plug the USB drive directly into my iMac and it mounts and works perfectly. Plug it into the AEBS, nothing.
What changed today to make it stop working? Anyone have this issue or have a fix? This is quite maddening. All solutions appreciated.
The USB drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)

Hi Starrainne
If your logic board is defunct, it may not be possible to access the Hard Drive through Firewire Disk mode.
How to use FireWire target disk mode, but that would be the first thing to try as you may save yourself having to remove it.
If you can make no connection with the hard drive through that method then the next option is to physically remove the HD from the eMac, which is partly shown in these pictures.
http://www.wilko.com/emac/
The HD is attached to the entire logic board assembly which also has to be removed.
Once removed you would then house it in an HD enclosure, examples are shown here:
https://eshop.macsales.com/search/HD+enclosure
effectively making it an external Hard Drive.
With the HD in the enclosure, connecting it to the MacBook via a Firewire cable it will appear as another volume. In this instance you do not need to use Fire Target Disk mode to see it, as it is now removed and you are not required to boot into it. It will just appear as another volume on your Desktop allowing you to copy the data off your old drive and onto your MacBook.
There will be quite a bit of work involved doing all of this, mainly because your eMac is such a compact and integrated product that will take some patience to dismantle.
regards roam

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