G-Drive Mini won't mount - can't see it in Disk Utility

Last night my g-drive mini was unplugged from the firewire port, didn't get ejected before unplugging. When I went to put it back in, the power light comes on, but I don't hear the HD spin, and it doesn't mount.
When I open disk utility, I still don't see the drive.... oh for the love of god please help... pretty much lifes work/backup on there.
Noah

When i do, its only showing my big gdrive, a connected server, and my hd. But not the mini.
One other detail i should add, if it changes anything, is last night i tried hooking up the g-drive mini to my airport express just to see if it would work wirelessly (after soon finding out express doesnt support that). Having to use a USB cord, I needed to plug it into the wall with the ac-adapter.
Thats when I went to plug it back into my laptop and wouldn't mount from that moment forward.

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