Macbook and Locked firewire hard drive

Help Please!!! I have a Macbook which went into a loop when starting up and kept restarting all the time. I decided to completely reload all the software. i have done that, upgraded all the software to the latest versions but I have a major problem with the Western Digital 500GB drive that I use for Time Machine. It is now locked and there is nothing I can do to unlock it. I have tried everything that the help menu says about privileges etc. but it still remains locked. It has all my iphoto stuff on it and I cant bear to think that I might lose it.

Thanks for replying. I'm a novice at this. Really what I'm asking is this : If I have hours and hours of video footage can I transfer the footage from the MVX 460 onto my iMac and then transfer it from my iMac to the LaCie external drive for storage. I really only want some way of storing hours of video and thousands of digital photos.
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