Recovery after incomplete disk wipe

I searched the forums but couldn't find anything...

I started "Darik's Boot And Nuke" from a bootable CD hoping to wipe a drive that I wanted cleaned. I carelessly left additional internal and external drives plugged in when I started the wipe. Five seconds (literally) into the wipe I realized my mistake and hit the kill switch on my computer.

I'm kind of a noob, but even for me this was a stupid mistake, as I have used the DBAN in the past and pulled out all hard drives I didn't want wiped.

I pulled the DBAN CD out of the optical drive and tried to load from one of the hard disks (windows installed):
"NTLDR is missing
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
_"

I installed windows on an old 80g hard drive I found and all of the disks that got "wiped" won't show in windows explorer and disk manager sees them as unknown, not initialized, and unallocated.

I was hoping someone here could tell me where I stand before I start blindly dling and trying to figure out how to use random data recovery programs.
Since the wipe had barely started I figure there has to be a chance of recovery. If it makes a difference the drives were, 300g, 500g, and a 1TB.
I'm kinda lost; could use a guiding hand.

 

I've gone through all the stages of grief about this now.
I can talk about it again.
At the "acceptance" stage.

I cannot access the DBAN-ed drives with Recuva because, as I said, "all of the disks that got 'wiped' won't show in windows explorer and disk manager sees them as unknown, not initialized, and unallocated."

Recuva can't "see" the drives I wiped. I'm sorry that I don't know the technical terms for what I'm trying to say. Should I install an OS on the drive I wiped and try Recuva again? Would that help? I don't really know what to do, but this is what my next uneducated step will be unless you say different.

Curious,
Beeswax

 

Do NOT write data to drives you want to recover data from, as that will only make it harder.

Use a live distro of Linux to attempt to access the drives, as was already mentioned. That would be the next logical step to your issue.

If that fails, then format the drives using a "quick format", then use Recuva or the likes. Make sure you use the format they previously had (likely NTFS, but could've been FAT/FAT32). However, this will obviously damage at least some of the data on the drives in the process... but at least you will be able to use them in Windows. Again, though, this is a last resort after accessing them via Linux doesn't work!