Comp not recognizing fat32 hard drive...

refer here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1437437&tstart=0
The hard drive I told about there that I have formatted in Fat32 (because of going between platforms) is no longer being recognized by my mac... I was in the middle of saving my chopped captures, and it is like the format (fat32) has totally messed this thing up! Its on all cables are plugged in, etc... just in case you wonder this HD is the seagate FreeAgent Pro 750GB st307504fpa1e2-rk

Not to be rubbing it in, though I'm doing all my backups on an NTFS formated disk through NTFS-3G.
But lets focus on you problem, the suggestion by Robert Jarosh1, did it work?
Otherwise, the complaint by chkdsk could very well be that it does not understand the format (i.e. Mac OS ext.), I assumed that it might be an NTFS format issue, I was wrong. Otherwise it could have been a broken/lost partition table.
So, you wiped you computer clean and now it won't recognise the external disk when using the SL installation disk (boot disk)? Just so I got it right.
How about installing the OS from the DVD and see if the OS can recognize the external drive? Then use Migration assistant to restore your system from backup?
Otherwise, try something else just to be sure. Fire up terminal from the boot disk and cd yourself to /Volumes/ to see if the disk shows up at all!
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