MacPro hard drives locked up. How do I unlock them?

MacPro2 x 2.93 GHz 6-core Intel Xeon
64 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Snow Leopard 10.6.8
Just created additional user account. Logged out and logged back into my user account. Noticed 3 of my hard drives were locked. Went to Administrator account and they were locked also. It would not let me unlock them, Tech guy even came in and created another Root User account and it would not let him unlock them either. We have reformatted one of the drives, but these are each 2 TB drives and will take me hours to copy my files back from my Time Machine back ups

How were you trying to unlock them? Are they locked or do they just have the wrong permissions?

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