You have inserted a disk contain no volumes MAC OSX can read

Major Problems here folks. I'll be as thorough and brief as possible.
My external hard drive is no longer being recognized. Disk Warrior is unable to do anything with it. I try to rebuild and it hangs on locating directories. The external is recognized by Dick Utility but I can't verify or repair. I tried using the boot cd, as well as using os9 startup disk. I have lots of FCP projects I just can't loose. Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

Hi So Cal,
Here's a discussion thread that is dealing with much the same issue as yours. Cornelius seems to be pretty switched on about this issue.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=243948&tstart=0
Maybe join this thread.
Cheers!
Karl

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