Disc Icon has padlock, and won't open, How do I unlock it?

I have 4 internal Hard drives and two external drives. I had to re-install my Mac OS 10.6.8. Now on of the Internal drives and one of the external (the one that contains my Time Machine Backups) have a padlock on the desktop icon. I get the message "The folder "___" can't be opened because you don't have permission tp see its contents". In the "Get Info" window, It doesn't matter whether the "Ignore ownrship on this volume" is checked or not. Under "Sharing & Permissions", it says "You have custom access". All of the Account Names say "Custom" under "Privilege", and can't be changed. What is going on, and how do I fix it?

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