Finder Not seeing Disk

This problem began when I discovered that I couldn't repair permissions on my girlfriend's relatively new Mac Pro. After calling Apple the suggestion was that I do an Install and Archive of Leopard.
That fixed that issue but and ongoing problem remained with a new twist.
There's an internal hard drive that has many important images on it that stopped appearing in Finder at some point. We can see it if we open Photoshop, open the Open dialog box, and switch to the Adobe Dialog (this is an option on her version of PS 10.0 but not mine, 10.0.1).
So one problem is that this disk does not appear in the standard OS Finder. It is visible on the desktop and in the Disk Utility list. The other is that there are many image files that have permission errors. When we copy them to the boot drive they have normal thumbnails and open properly. But, when we point Bridge to them where there are in this disk they have generic icons and PS can't open them because of parsing errors.
Does any of this make sense to anyone?
I've tried using Techtools Pro to repair the disk to no avail.
Thanks,
Chris

What drive? make/model/size etc
Normally an unformatted drive will cause a dialogue on startup (eject, ignore, initialize)
Moving isn't going to help.
Look inside to see the drive will slide in and you don't have any issue.
Then run Apple Hardware Test
More likely if anything is drive is DOA; logicboard; 'foreign' format that DU can't mount.
Putting in a FW case might be handy.

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