Volume gone - no utility seems to help!

Hi,
I have a G4 hard disk which worked fine until today. The Mac was shut down properly yesterday and today it can't find a bootable system (question mark folder). So I booted it with my emergency FW drive to let DiskWarrior take a look. The problem is that DW does not see it.
Disk Utility shows me the device, but says there are no volumes on it and that it's unformatted! I can't mount my volume and at first boot I get the usual "Ignore, Eject, Initialize" message as if it really were unformatted. I tried to hook it up external and internal, but no difference. I ran a thorough scan with Data Rescue 2, but after nearly 2 hours it only found a bunch of GIFs.
Any idea how I could get back my partition?
Thanks
Björn

Aaaaaaah, sorry!
It's been too long of a day it seems. I had 2 identical drives and mixed them up. So since the other one actually WAS unformatted all is fine. DW did correct the directory structure and I'm now cloning away...
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Last successful upload                       : (none)
Last attempted upload                        : (none)
Total Megabytes of XML files uploaded so far : 0
Number of XML files pending upload           : 0
Size of XML files pending upload(MB)         : 0
Available disk space on upload filesystem    : 82.39%
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