Mouth To Mouth On This External Hard Drive

My 1st post here so hello people...
Bad stuff.. I read a thread posted in December about something related to this and i tried all the suggestions but nothings worked for me yet.. I really hope someone can help me..
I run a G5 1.8 17" i-Mac.. 10.3.9? Panther..
I bought an External Hard Drive 2 weeks ago : Formac 500Gb XTR Firewire.
I installed it a few days ago and i've been stacking it with nothing but my music archive that i had stored in various locations since... I got to 80Gb... After i had moved all the previous i-Tunes library over i killed it.
Yesterday i turned the Formac off for the 1st time... Instead of clicking eject i stupidly turned it off with the switch , then recieved a warning window but by this time it was too late.
Now when i start up, the external hard drive isn't mounted.
I've tried several things :
I downloaded a trial version of 'Drive Genius' - When i ran this and scanned for my devices the Formac didn't show.
I looked in disc utilty - Nothing is listed
I turned off for a couple of hours unplugged everything by the main power supply, including the firewire ports - Still nothing
I changed the firwire port that the Formac was connected to.
When i look in the apple menu > About this mac.. Then go into the Firewire tree - When the Formac is unplugged, nothing is listed under Firewire.. When the Formac is connected it reads Firewire - Firewire Device and underneath that it says 800Mb/Second (This is the speed that the Formac runs at)...< ? I find this strange
Now i presume that all the data is still inside the Formac, it's getting the machine to recognise the external hard drives presence.
Before this tragedy, the readout on the Formac had a green light which would flash... But now when i connect it to the power the green light comes on at a constant illumination for around 10 to 15 seconds and then nothing.
I really hope someones got some answers cos i'm climbing the walls about this serious.
Many thanks in advance.
<br>
i-Mac G5 1.8 17" 1.256Gb Mac OS X (10.3.9) G5 1.8 17"

I bought an External Hard Drive 2 weeks ago : Formac
500Gb XTR Firewire.
Yesterday i turned the Formac off for the 1st time...
Instead of clicking eject i stupidly turned it off
with the switch , then recieved a warning window but
by this time it was too late.
Now when i start up, the external hard drive isn't
mounted.
I've tried several things :
I downloaded a trial version of 'Drive Genius' - When
i ran this and scanned for my devices the Formac
didn't show.
I looked in disc utilty - Nothing is listed
I turned off for a couple of hours unplugged
everything by the main power supply, including the
firewire ports - Still nothing
I changed the firwire port that the Formac was
connected to.
When i look in the apple menu > About this mac.. Then
go into the Firewire tree - When the Formac is
unplugged, nothing is listed under Firewire.. When
the Formac is connected it reads Firewire - Firewire
Device and underneath that it says 800Mb/Second (This
is the speed that the Formac runs at)...< ? I find
this strange
Now i presume that all the data is still inside the
Formac, it's getting the machine to recognise the
external hard drives presence.
Before this tragedy, the readout on the Formac had a
green light which would flash... But now when i
connect it to the power the green light comes on at a
constant illumination for around 10 to 15 seconds and
then nothing.
I really hope someones got some answers cos i'm
climbing the walls about this serious.
Many thanks in advance.
<br>
i-Mac G5 1.8 17"
1.256Gb Mac OS X (10.3.9) G5 1.8 17"
If the drive does not show up in Disk Utility, you have a hardware problem. DiskWarrior, or any other software, will not help if the drive is not visible to the system. If the disk was formatted HFS+ Journaled (the normal for OSX), shutting off the power before ejecting should cause no problem, except for any file that was being written at the time. In any case, it would not cause the problems you are seeing. Does the manual say what the green light means?
Can you hear the drive spin when you turn on the power? If the drive does not start, sometimes a sharp twist of the case will help, but this usually is only needed for old drives.
If the drive is 800MHZ FireWire and plugged into a 800MHz port, that's the speed System Profiler will show, even though the drive cannot transfer data that fast. This does indicate that the FireWire part of the drive enclosure is working. It's possible the 12V part of the power supply has failed. The 5V part would keep the FireWire port and the indicator light working, but the 12V part is needed to spin the drive. If you are lucky, a new enclosure or power supply will fix the problem, and you will not lose any data. If the drive itself has failed, it will cost a LOT of money to recover the data.

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