Disk & File Size Not Calculating

I have an installation of 10.5.5 on a external firewire hard drive I use to boot machines for backups. For some reason it is not calculating the hard drive sizes. When I check Get Info for a hard drive it says --KB.
It wont let me transfer data to another drive, stating there is not enough free space, even when there is. Can't even move an empty folder to a volume that has over 120GB free.
Any ideas? I have tried to repair permissions already.

Might the drive be locked or otherwise set to read only? Also, while system permissions may be fine, are those for the drive set correctly?
All of this can be checked in the Get Info tab.

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Hello, and thank you for the new reply.
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