Problem in seeing new LaCie USB drive

Hi all, am looking for information related to the fact that my LaCie 320 gig USB drive will not show on the desktop. Sometimes it does appear to quickly vanish, often with an error message relating to inappropriate device removal, but of course I have not removed anything.
All started after 10.4.8, have reinstalled 10.4.8 as a combo update and repaired permissions over and over, restarted, removed power cable from back of Mac, disconnected all USB and Firewire ports, etc, etc. Nothing will make the Lacic stay mounted!! Am running Vista under BootCamp, but can't see why that would effect anything.
iMac 20" Intel Core 2 Duo, 250 gig HD, 1 gig Ram   Mac OS X (10.4.7)   LaCie 320 gig and LaCie 80 gig EHD's. Running XP via Boot Camp

Ronald,
"Resetting your Mac's PRAM and NVRAM" may help you.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
The other thing you can try is to test your LaCie drive using another Mac.
Mihalis.

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