Forgot to Eject

I bought a portable external hard drive to back up my files using time machine, and have been doing so for a few months now.
My mother didn't know that she had to eject the volume, and just disconnected it, disregarding the warning message. Now my computer doesn't recognize that my backup drive is connected, there are no backups whatsoever on time machine, and if I try to do a backup it says it has failed. I've restarted my laptop, and the hard drive itself is still lighting up and seems to be running, it just apparently isn't doing anything. Is there a simple fix for this that I'm missing?

ndirish4 wrote:
I even tried to start up from the installation disc, with the same results.
Even the Installation disc couldn't dismount it? Ouch! That's quite unusual.
You're probably going to have to reformat it, and let Time Machine start over, but try this first:
Disconnect and power it off for several minutes. Boot up from the Installation disc (you're running Leopard and using a Leopard Install disc, right?), then reconnect it. GIve it a few moments, and see if the +*Repair Disk+* (not permissions) button is enabled when you select the top line for the Time Machine disk (with the size and make). If not, try the line(s) indented under it, for the partition(s).
If not, there's a chance that +Disk Warrior+ or another 3rd-party heavy-duty disk repair app can fix it. DW is a pretty good investment for about $100, but there's no guarantee it can fix it this time. If you use it (or another such app), be certain it's compatible with Leopard -- version 4.1.1 for DW (free upgrade from 4.0 and some previous versions).
If not, or if you don't want to spend the $100 now, your only choice is to completely reformat it. See #5 in the Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum. This situation is one of the times when it's probably worth the time to +Zero Out Data+ in step (b) there.

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