Cant repair permissions on hard drive

I have a 1 TB hard drive that I installed and for some reason I can not repair permissions on it. It does not let me choose it in disk utility.
anyone know how I can rapair the permissions?

I am running 10.5.7
Only the OS (if any) installed on the 1TB drive matters. Whatever systems you might have installed on other drives or partitions doesn't.
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