Power cut lost my hard drive

After a power cut my iMac has restarted without recognising my LaCie 2TB Porsche Design P'9233 USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive. I have restarted unplugged and cursed loudly without success.
Any ideas folks?

Ok first many times when there is a Power loss, when they Power back on it can cause a Power Surge.
A Power Surge can sometime cause your equipment to get cooked and render your equipment virtually useless.
If you cannot access the LaCie then it will be hard to copy your files to something else. You can try to connect the LaCie to another Mac and see if you can access it like that, if you can you may want to try coping to a flash drive.
I would like to recommend that you think about purchasing a APC Battery Backup this can and will eliminate the risk of loss of equipment because of Thunder Storms and lightning strikes and power outages.
http://www.apc.com/site/products/index.cfm/homeoffice-nam/?segmentID=1
Hopefully this helps.
Don

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