Can u advise? External hard disk not mounting

I have a 250 gig external LaCie hard disk. Its the USB drive by Porsche. It suddenly stopped mounting the other days and has been like that since. I have tried disconnecting the power and reconnecting and tried a software called Mount Me but nothing seems to work. All the info on the drive was in FAT32 format. I need help, this hard drive has important data. Please!

Thanks in anticipation

Attached here is a screenshot of disk utility when this drive is connected. Note that the hard drive is mounted, but the single partition of 232GB doesnt mount. Help!

What happens when you click the Mount button on the top bar of disk utility?

It says the disk can't be mounted. try running first aid and try again. A screenshot of this is attached.

When you click on the disk itself (not the unmounted volume) can you run Repair Disk

Nope, its greyed out.

Repair disk permissions. You can also try mounting it using the console.

ed724

Running disk permissions is not permitted as the partition doesn't mount. How do I mount it using the console? Someone please help me coz the data on this disk is very important. Thanks

When your in "console" type "man mount". A file will come up that shows the options for the "mount" command. Type df at the console prompt to see what the volume name is so you can mount it.l


ed724

It might just be the drive. The Porsche series of drives are known to be faulty.