Fullerton--I know what you're saying, I was just explaining that Disk First Aid wouldn't work for me--Techtool didn't work either, the repair and recover buttons would'nt come up

I had to resort to Disc Warrior in order to buid a new directory in order to find the hard drive again-Now that I've got it back, I can go in with other programs and recover everything(or just about everything)--I haven't explained the whole tedious process that I went through--though I had to do what you did, which was to go in from another drive-

I am curious to know what kind of drive you put in-I am thinking about getting the PCI card and installing a Serial ATA drive--