Disk Warrior can't see startup drive

I have a 2008 iMac running Mountain Lion and have not been able to start up from the internal hard drive since a system crash. Following the advice on these forums, I tried Disk Utility, but it could not repair the problems it found with the disk. I purchased Disk Warrior and booted from its CD, but it cannot see the startup disk either. Previously, I had been able to boot from the Mountain Lion recovery partition and see the afflicted drive from another machine in Disk Utility when connected in Firewire target disk mode. But having tried both since running Disk Warrior, the affected drive no longer shows up. Is there anything else I can do to try to get Disk Warrior to see the drive and repair/recover files from it?
Note: I have a recent Time Machine backup but wanted to exhaust all my options trying to work on the startup drive before testing that TM backup on new hardware. (As an aside, is it possible to restore the TM backup to another volume—that is, not the affected drive, assuming that's impossible, but another partition of an external drive—and boot from it to check and see if there any problems with the backup? (My fear is that whatever caused the initial crash and problems will persist in the Time Machine backup, but perhaps I am being paranoid.)
Thanks for any advice.

Thanks for the tip. I figured out that as the drive is not connected via USB, then of course it won't show in Disk Utility. And the Lacie Cloudbox I bought only has Ethernet.
Lacie do not supply any software to format the drive as far as I can see. The set-up utility they used to ship doesn't exist any more.

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