Accidental erasure of drive?

While adding a new HD (Drive B) to a dual HD enclosure, I first disconnected the cable to the original drive (A), connected it to drive B (as master), then formatted it using Disk Utility. When I reconnected drive A as master and drive B as slave, I found that both my drives are now completely erased and appear to be mounted as Drive B. Could anyone please assist? Thank you.

you could try to boot with your Installation Disk 1 and use disk utility to do a repair on the disk. to see whether you really did do a format.

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