Recovering with Data Rescue II

Hi everyone. I just bought a new external hard drive (Iomega Mini Max) and Data Rescue II so that I can hopefully recover the many music files trapped in my corrupt Lacie hard drive. A while ago I accidentally (and to my everlasting horror) unplugged it while I was downloading a few shows and it hasn't mounted at all ever since. Anyways, I've installed Data Rescue II, but the Lacie never shows up, and I'm not exactly sure how to use it anyways... I think I'm supposed to boot up from the CD, but I don't even know how to do that. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
iBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

As I've previously mentioned, I don't know anything about DataResue.
But with FileSalvage, it's a fairly easy process. You don't need to know file info of any sort. Scroll about halfway down the FileSalvage website until you see this:
"Adding Custom File Formats
To recover files that may not already exist in the current list of ‘Supported File Formats’ the user can add them via the dialog drop down, doing so by dragging & dropping 10 or more files of the same format into the ‘Custom Format’ pane to the left side of the drop dialog. Once these 10 or more files of the same format have been dropped into the pane, the Process button will become highlighted and should then be clicked by the user. Upon completion of analysis the new format will be added to the supported formats pane."
Regards. Robert

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