HELP!!! I can't access my external haard drive

Ok, here is my sit
I have a PowerBook G4 with 1 gig of ram. It has a 75 gig hard drive
After 3 days of owning this computer i hade 3 gigs left. Hehe, lots of stuff
Ok so i went to ebaay and got a Westerndigital internal hard drive (250 gigs) and a hard drive enclousure. I got this all back in december, and up until yesterday everything was going greaat, BUT NOW. It won;t detect the hard drive. I tried changing the cord, switiching to usb cord. BEFORE this happened, i had just scanned the whole drive, (it has 5 partions) with Norton AntiVirus. No viruses were found, how ever and it unexpectedly quit after like 3 hours of scanning, i did not think anything of it at the time,, cause it was 3 am, so i ejected it , (the icon disappears) w8ed aa min, and shut the drive off,, then a msg a appears it says decive removal with out proper ejection,,, so next time it don't work.
Now as a wirrte this, i think to re install the software, plz post any hintss,, or tipss. i will up date thios threaad again at 11:30ish

drive is fried, got a replacement

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