Ongoing troubles with firewire Lacie hard drive

A couple of years ago I purchased a Lacie firewire 160GB hard drive to use as a backup for my aging G3. After encountering problems formatting and mounting the drive I put it aside to concentrate on my work. Recently I powered up and connected to my G3, and the drive mounnted on my desktop. I proceeded to copy files over [my internal 9 GB drive was nearly full]. Just as I finished the Firewire drive crashed and I may have lost several years of work unless I can retireve the data and maybe replace the drive. Maybe the drive would function correctly if used with a G4 or G5 but for the moment I use what I have.
Does anyone have any idea what may be the problem and how I might repair the drive?

I agree with what Bill W says
if the drive is acting flakey, its hard to say whether it is the drive or the bridgeboard in the enclosure
first thing to do is to update the firmware on the bridgeboard in the enclosure - you can find firmware tools here: FireWire firmware/tools
if that doesnt work, then you should take the drive and place it in a new enclosure such as the following: FireWire Enclosures
the problem is, in either case, if the problem is the drive itself, then before doing anything is to run a data recovery app on the drive to get any data you need to recover/save - the most popular is Prosoft Engineerings Data Rescue

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Hey, I'm new (not to Apple just to these forums) and I find this section very helpful.
Anyways, I have a very... odd situation. I just got my new Macbook Pro today, and I've had a 12" Powerbook G4 since it first came out. Alright, with that out of the way, here is the problem. I have 2 external hard drives, both being a Western Digital. Now, I hook up this Macbook up to HD "A" and it works. I hook up the Powerbook up to the same HD and it fails to recognize it.
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Your best bet (I'm a computer professional, for what it's worth):
Get a hard drive case or enclosure that supports firewire 800 and put your own PC hard drive (SATA for example) 7200rpm or higher hard drive into it.
Let me explain a bit more. External hard drive manufacturers often put no-name hard drives into fancy cases to cut costs and that's how they make a profit. I've have had nothing but problems with with these types of drives. (Like Lacie) You are much better off getting some type of decent drive enclosure and getting your own GOOD hard drive. I would highly recommend Seagate, I have NEVER had a problem with a Seagate drive in 20 years of owning PCs and Macs. Western Digital is also a good brand (though I had 1 crash). These are the types of drives you would put in your Mac Pro. You want to get an SATA hard drive.
I have owned several external cases where the case electronics fried, but the hard drives were still in good shape. Take the hard drive out, put it into a new case you're good to go!
For video you want to make sure that your hard drive case supports Firewire 800! This is mandatory.
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http://www.vantecusa.com/gl/product/view_detail/173
(My bad, this is an IDE case up to 750GB)
This the one you want:
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As far as the hard drive, you can get a Seagate Baracuda drive 1TB at 7200rpm drive for about $60. The case and hard drive together, maybe a few over $100 for the whole thing. With shipping, and tax figure about $150.
Don't let the price fool you. It will rock.
Story: I got an iOmega "raid" case with two Seagate drives in it and the iOemga case fried, but the hard drives were still good. Fortunately, they were in two removable trays. I put them into two "rocketfish" hard drive cases almost 3 years ago and I am still using them every day today.
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This happened to me with a LaCie external drive as well.
The problem is that LaCie formats the drives as PC-based
and not Mac Extended, so unless you reformatted the
drives to Mac when you started using them, your access
to them on any Mac may result in a failure to mount.
Once that happens retrieval of data is made more difficult
because of this formatting incongruity.
There is no way you can get the data once your G4 quits
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Hi,
I've been trying to work out the Hard Drive problems with the Airport Extreme for a few days and have had some success, so I'll share the info if its any use!
First of all, your printer and both hard drives all run off their own power supply, therefore, you don't need to have a powered usb hub, or just take the plug out and keep using the hub, save yourself a plug!
More importantly, I have had the same thing with the hard drive appearing in the Airport Utility yet whenever I try to connect, it comes up with an error and can't mount, although when I go to network and connect it appears but then goes wrong at the last part mounting, this is what I found...
the first time I plugged hard drive in all worked nicely, however, any time I have unplugged the power to the Aiport Extreme and connected again it'll show but never connect. When I went to make a few partitions I realised that if you unplug the router and repower, whatever HD name its seen before doesn't work until the HD name was changed again. For example....
I called my first HD to connect 'wifiHD', was working fine, next time i unplugged router was still showing in network but I couldn't mount it, I then plugged it to the mac and renamed it 'wifiDISK' for example and plugged it back into the router and it worked fine! Its very strange cos when I needed to unplug it last time I then had the same trouble and just renamed it back to 'wifiHD' it worked fine! Its a little flaw which is a right bugger to find so the bottom line is...
*RENAME THE HARD DRIVE EVERY TIME YOU UNPLUG THE ROUTER AND YOU CAN MOUNT IT AGAIN*
Another tip is format your HD in 'Mas OSX Extended' as it can be read by both mac and PC over the network. Then as windows isn't the best when you go to 'My Network Places' and 'Add Network Place' if you can't find the HD or even the router then enter
\\routername\\hardrivename\
in this format into the box, it'll take a mo but it'll then ask for the password! I personally have my hard drive guest access read + write so I entered
user: guest
password: base station password (or disk password as selected in airport utility)
and it all worked!
Sorry for the long explanation, hope this has helped!

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