Help! My Lacie won't mount!

Help! Help anybody out there can help.
I have recently bought a LaCie 1TB Rikibi External HD. It has been great so far and I have filled it with approx. 700GB. I have two partitions, one with 10GB (Windows) and one with appr. 990GB
Then a couple of weeks ago I unplugged the cable without "de-mounting" it.
After this my HD showed that it had 989GB available, even if there were 700GB of files there. All the files worked perfectly, and I had no problems at all.
Then yesterday I was bored and tried to find a solution, and then I came to Disc Utility. I pressed the repair button and it started repairing. Then I got the Error message. (My OS is in norwegian, but I will translate to the best of my abilities).
"Disc Utility cannot repair this disc. Back-up as many of the files as possible, format the disc again and restore the back-up'ed files"
Now the partition with 990GB is not available, it has been renamed "disk1s2" and is "deactivated". Therefor I cannot access my files and take a backup of them. I tried DiscWarrior and before I could rebuild I checked the preview, and there was only a couple of files, around 40GB left, the rest was gone.
I would like to take a back-up of the files, so the around 700GB that is there. Then I can format everything, but I dont want to loose all thoose files.
Since I cannot access my files on it, how would it be possible to backup and restore everything?
I dont have a extra 1 TB HD myself, but I can borrow one, but I dont want to erase this one in a hopeless attempt to retrieve my files! I contacted Lacie, but they just sent me to a company that wanted €400 to "retrieve" things.
Anyone have an idea of what I can do? Thank you in advance for answers.

"disk1s2" and is "deactivated
Sound like an error in the structure. If DiskWarrior can repair the volume, and you only see 40GB you can try an App like DataRescue (Also a demo availible where you see which files, could be restored. With the demo you could only restore 1 file less the 10MB in size) which COULD maybe restore your files.
Otherwise you can't do anything but bringing it to a professional data rescue company.
SO LONG don't work on the drive!!! Don't copy file to the drive, or use it for backup or dupicating file on the drive! Every operation will be deleting more and more from you old files!

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