Mounting an external hard drive that won't

Hi
I've got a maxtor onetouch extrenal hard disk connected to my G4 via firewire. It's been working fine until one of the designers decided to switch it off without ejecting, since then it won't mount on the desktop.
I've used disk utilty and I can see the drive, but not the volume, therefore I cannot scan it and I cannot mount the drive within utilty.
I've also run it through techtool and the surface scan failed and it won't recognise that there is a volume there, although it recognises a drive.
I've had a similar issue way back in the past when we used OS9 and managed to recover the volume using Norton Volume Recover, but don't have an OSX version.
Please can anyone help?
Cheers
Mike
G4 PowerPC Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Hi smike;
I had a simular situation with a hrad drive back when I was still using Norton. Everyone was saying dump and put in a new one. I used Disk Warrior on it. It took forever ( over 16 hours) but Disk Warrior was able to recover it for me.
Immediately after that, I got rid of all things Symantec from my Mac.
Allan

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