Lost harddrive access messed up permissions?

I have an 400GB internal drive with three partions. I was trying to set the permissions for the harddrive so that only one user can access it. Now no users can access it at all. I see the harddrive in my Disk Utility but it looks like a piece of paper with a folder corner and not like the usual icon. How can I gain access to this drive again? Do I have to erase the drive? I do not want to loose the data on the drive.
I have tried to repair permissions, etc but nothing seems to work.
Any help is much appreciated.
Thank you.
G5 1.6 Ghz, 2 GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.4) (2) 250 GB External Drives, 20" CInema Display

Choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu and
enter /Volumes/ as the folder's location. Next, open
the Terminal in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder
while keeping the Volumes folder open. Type the
following into the window:
chmod 755
followed by a space. Drag the volume in question into
the Terminal window and press Enter. Log out and back
in, and see if the drive reappears on your desktop;
Thanks for the help it worked like a charm. One further question I have is what did I do wrong? For example if I want to make a harddrive (or limit access to a folder) on an external harddrive to one user how do I go about doing that? I was just changing the permissions in the dialogue boxes but that does not seem to work. Perhaps there is a key step I am missing.

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joelhames wrote:
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