My computer will no longer read my firewire drive what happened?

 
15" powerbook   Mac OS X (10.4.4)  
15" powerbood   Mac OS X (10.4.4)  

Nobody really knows. There's lots of posts in here about it.
Some people are re-installing, going back to 10.4.3. You'd have to archive and install, upgrade to 10.4.3 with the COMBO drive and consider updating your Quicktime.

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