Lacie Hard Drive Appears In Disk Utility But Not Desktop

Hello,
My Lacie hard drive was working fine till yesterday. It will appear in the disk utility but not on the desktop? I'm using a G4 with mac os 10.3.9. I have tried disconnecting the power and rebooting to no avail.
Any help?
Thank you.

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Type :           Partition
          Disk Identifier :           disk1s2
          Mount Point :           Not mounted
          File System :           Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
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2013-09-03 11:18:27 -0700:
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2013-09-03 11:18:44 -0700:
2013-09-03 11:18:44 -0700:
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2013-09-03 11:19:22 -0700: Checking extended attributes file.
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Hi there. Any help would be most gratefully received.
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http://www.olij.co.uk/diskutility_failweb.jpg
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Well, after holding down the power button for 5 seconds (reset EFI?) and clearing the PRAM I am now able to launch the installation DVD.
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It seems to go wrong after the process starts to restore the applications.
You can see two error logs, for two seperate restore events:
http://www.olij.co.uk/OSXrestore_crashlog1.txt
http://www.olij.co.uk/OSXrestore_crashlog2.txt
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Feb 26 16:31:33 localhost ReportCrash[192]: Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGSEGV)
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