Hard Drive Not Showing in Terminal

My Mac Pro started running slow even after clearing cookies and deleting unnecessary data including pics, documents, trash and history. So I recently upgraded to Macbook OSX Maverick (version 10.9.3) and uninstalled Mackeeper and all files associated with it according to the instructions here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efnXbn1nC4E. Then I repaired disk permissions. I also tried to repair ACLs according to the instructions here pondini.org/OSX/Password.html. All was going well until I reached the reset password window. I was instructed to select the volume containing the user account but there was nothing at all in the volume box. Macintosh HD is not showing up there. I can still see it and the files in my finder though. Weird. I do not know what to do. Everytime I try to access the web I get the message "connection was reset." The tab reads "problem loading page." After reading I realize that the home file needs permissions reset but is there a way to get the HD to show up in the terminal so I can reset home folder permissions and ACLs? Is there a Sudo command for this? This is too time consuming for me to keep researching this. I need help please. I just want my laptop functioning again. I am so frustrated. Uggghhh!!!

I have also run into the problem of my Mac running slow and learned about the repair utility that can be reached upon rebooting and holding down the cmd key and R then running the terminal and putting in resetpassword which brings up the reset utility and the last instruction is to reset home folder and ACLs.  When I did all this my reset utility was empty not showing my hard drive or any users.  But once I turned off the FileVault both the hard drive and users showed up and was able to do the reset.  For me it took many hours to decrypt the hard drive and it appears that it is going to take twice as long to encrypt it again.

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