Clean Install gone bad.. Can't access HD now!

I recently was doing a clean install on my HD and while booted up on the Recovery Partition, I accessed the Disk Utility and formated and my system restarted and I got an error. I took the HD out of my Macbook and into an External HD Enclosure and plugged it into another Macbook and it now shows up on that Disk Utlity as Macintosh HD with no option of Partitioning the drive. I can't figure out what else to do. (FYI, its the very TOP drive, ignore the 500.11 GB and 320.07 Hard drives, The very top one listed as Macintosh HD is the one I screwed up!)

Did you have FileVault enabled on this disk? If so you must disable the user lock of FileVault:
OS X (Lion/Mountain Lion)- About FileVault 2
OS X Lion- Using FileVault 2 and Lion Recovery
Boot to the Recovery HD and open Disk Utility from the main menu:
Select the volume Macintosh HD.
In the Disk Utility toolbar, click Unlock.
Type the disk password when prompted, i.e. the login password of any unlock-enabled user on the affected Mac.
Click Unlock.

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