Help for hd that won't mount

re my inquiry Lacie disk not mounting: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1247473&tstart=225
I tried everything technically possible to have it mount ... finally I called LaCie ... problem: it is an old external disk (no longer in production) and/or very possibly it got corrupted via recent upgrade to Leopard (or not) - I see that there are a few threads re FW problems with external peripherals not mounting, etc .... I would venture to say that I was not spared ... needless to say if I wanted to recoup my data on this disk prior to repartitioning it, etc I had one solution - that is find data retrieval software ... PROSOFTENG.com offers Data Rescue II for the Mac ..... you can download a trial version to test out if this is what you need ... limited trial retrieval to 5 mb ... if it does the trick, then it is up to you to purchase it to authenticate it and to have full retrieval capability ... it worked for me. Oh, by the way, I am not an employee and this not a sale pitch ... simply, this info is to give suggestion to others to avoid 2-3 days worth of frustration ... when you have external disk that no longer will mount for one reason or another ...
ApB

Subrosasoft Filesalvage can sometimes work when Data Rescue does not. Both are great.
You might also want to check out the advice on my FAQ*:
http://www.macmaps.com/firewirebug2.html
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.
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