Tim, I don't know if this will help, but I had a situ yesterday where I had to do a Tiger re-install ("archive and install"). After finishing it, I opened PTools and all of my drives came up "Transfer" only. After messing a bit, I re-installed PTools (7.4), restarted and all was well. You may have to do a PTools re-install to get your drives back. I would certainly consider doing a PTools re-install before re-formating all of your drives....