External drive won't mount in Leopard

I formatted an external hard drive from NTFS to HFS using Disk Utility in Snow Leopard. It all went fine, I loaded some files (this is a media player for television and that was that. This media player has the ability to move files and folders around itself, so I made the mistake of moving all hidden files ( /.DocumentRevisions-V100/, /.fseventsd/, /.Spotlight-V100/, /.TemporaryItems/ etc. to another folder.
After trying to mount the drive on my macbook again it would not show up. I tried to put the hidden files back in the same place I got them but no luck. One thing I noticed is that somehow I had two /.Spotlight-V100/ folders, I know there should be only one and have tried mounting with either in the right location.
Any help please?

the drive case needs drivers and or firmware. Happens all the time esp. with many makes and vendors due to the bridge it uses, that does the SATA drive <=> to FW/USB/etc to your Mac and whether you use FW800/400 or USB2 or even eSATA (w/ a PCIe SATA controller).
If you are using native SATA and an PCIe SATA controller.... tell us! and the vendor needs to provide drivers that are not included with Lion. Lion just 'broke' support it has had with Snow Leopard.
As for RAID - a RAID created with SL will not always support Lion for booting or mount. Happened with 10.3.9 too. And SL would not install on a RAID created with Leopard. See the pattern emerging?

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