Error message pop up when connecting external hard drive to eMac

Hi,
The external hard drive's icon don't show on desktop when the Maxtor 6Y160P0 Media connected to the eMac. Running the Disk Utilities still can detect the external hard drive.
After a while, it pop up a message shows that "You have inserted a disk containing no volumes that Mac OS X can read. To continue with the disk inserted, click Ignore." It has three options – Initialize, Ignore, Eject. Choosed "Ignore" to continue but useless. The external hard drive still spinning but can't access to backup data.
Sometime the icon showed after restart the external hard drive, unpluged the cables and pluged in again then restart the eMac. Sometime after doing these also no response.
Is there a fix for this?
Thank you!

If the previous user always SHUT DOWN the computer (vs. just sleeping it) then that wouldn't be the cause because when you shut down, the Mac OS closed up everything and dismounts the drives anyway. So shutting down without ejecting the hard drive and then turn the drive off after the computer is off is perfectly safe.
Is there something on the drive now that you need or would it be ok to simply reformat it and start over?
Patrick

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