How can i access my photos

for some reason, when i started working on my computer today, i could not get i=photo to work. when i clicked on the icon, the spinning wheel came up on a white background, and went on for hours.
it cannot access my photo library, which is stored on an external drive, but this has never happened before.
also, i cannot download images from my iphone or my camera storage disk, and i need to do both.
eeks. i need to access my photo library for a project i'm working on right now, so any help is welcomed.
i tried rebooting the computer, and also turning it off, unplugging and restarting it, but i keep having the same problem.
should i unplug and replug my remote hard drive?
the folder with the iphoto library does show up there when i click on the drive in the finder
i've also gotten a message that the external drive is locked, but it's not, i've never set any kind of lock function on it.
thanks a lot to anyone with any suggestions

Iomega and Seagate are brand names. We need the format of the disk.
You can find out the version of iPhoto using the same Get Info command.

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