Absolutely nothing will mount after leopard install

hey everyone. ive seen that this has been brought up a few times but i dont think ive read an answer to solve the problem.
when i installed leopard on dec.28 nothing since then will mount. no digital camera, no hard drive, no ipod, etc. nothing will mount. i have no idea what to do and would love some idea, so if anyone does have a solution, i would love it. thank you.

I've installed Leopard over 50 times on the same Mac Pro. Each install repeated the same way except one. Re-start got me to the purple screen and nothing would mount. I re-started after a while and everything was back to normal. I had to disconnect the firewire drive I used to make all my Leopard installs. It was a firewire drive which I had low confidence in and was testing it out to see if problems occurred which did.
Was your install similar. A device external attached?

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Hi sillynuggins-
Greetings and welcome to the Apple boards
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