I suggest you
DONT "blank and repartition the drive". This has the ******ial to make things worse.
Download Recover My Files from
www.recovermyfiles.com or click on this link:
http://download.getdata.com/RecoverMyFiles-Setup.exe.
I suggest you first try a "Fast Format Recover". In the drive selection screen, select the "physical drive" (you booting drive is drive 0 so your scondary drive should be physical drive 1 - but you will be able to tell from the size).
If the Fast Format Recover does not work, next try a Complete Format Recover searching only for the default selected files types.
In the results screen, look both in File View and Folder View for your files. In folder view at the end of the search you should get all files listed (not just those selected) with full file and folder names.
Click on the files in the results screen to preview their content, and if you like what you see, purchase an activation key to save files to your other drive.
You could search the net for a drive recovery tool that tries to fix the partitions in place - but if it does not work you can easily make things much worse and greatly reduce the chance of future recovery. If it is valuable datat then using a recovery tool to save to another drive is the best option.