Leopard Issues When Installing, Doesn't recognize external drives

Here we go again,
I have another user who upgrade to Leopard doing an Archive Clean Install probably with the external hard drives plugged into the Mac. Now his external drives aren't recognized at all. Does anyone know what is causing this issue and is there away to fix this problem without doing a complete archive reinstall all over again?

Phil Erskine wrote:
Here we go again,
I have another user who upgrade to Leopard doing an Archive Clean Install probably with the external hard drives plugged into the Mac. Now his external drives aren't recognized at all. Does anyone know what is causing this issue and is there away to fix this problem without doing a complete archive reinstall all over again?
Is the partition scheme and format consistent with that machine and Leopard?
Were the drives password protected?
Can you mount the drives using the terminal?
Do the drives show up on any another computer running Tiger? If they don't then going back to Tiger won't help.
There was a problem early on that it sometimes took a very long time (1/2 hour) for Leopard to recognize a drive because of Spotlight. How long did you wait for the drives to be recognized?

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