Both of my External FireWire Drives were powered on and their icon's were on the desktop ( iMac/3.06GHz/Snow Leopard ) when i decided for some unknown reason to eject ( Command + I ) both drives to do a apple software update/installation.

Upon restarting after the update was completed both external FireWired drives came back on the desktop BUT both had a small lock in the lower left hand corner of the drives icons.

Those two drives can not be opened because the message is that i don't have permission to see the contents.

Command+I shows that i have "Custom access". When I tried to change those settings they revert to "Custom access". I ticked on the "Ignore ownership on this volume" but still locked out.

I really need help because the alternative at this time is to erase and lose hours and hours of audio/video projects on one of the two drives.

I have tried DiskWarrior 4.2, TechToolPro 5.x, Apple'sDiskUtility by repairing permissions, unplugged the fire wire cable and re-plugged the cable, powered off and back on. No luck at all.

Is there any Utility or a terminal command to unlock those drives ?

Suggestions/help required please.

Walter

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