Sounds like this was the thread I was looking for. I looked at some of ZephirisX screenshots and sounds like I'm is the same jam as well

I dont have a credit card so I cant buy programs on the internet but are there any other easy way to restore your slave drives partions atfer formating your master? usualy chkdisk fixes errors but I cant even select the drive to do chkdisk, its as if it was corupted or never formatted. weird.
Please post here if anyone knows how exactly to fix this
edit: not sure if it helps but my drives are both western digital, master is 80gb slave is 200gb.