I Lost two HDD trying to install Windows 10 with BootCamp

I tried to install Windows 10 preview on a MBP Mid 2012 and after boot in Windows installer I choose the partition and the installer fails. I tried to boot again on OSX and didn't work anymore.
Using Disk Utility it shows that the HDD is not recognized. I tried the same procedure with an old HDD, and everything happens again.
I guess that Windows 10 installer is the responsible for the failure, but I can't understand how an installer can do that.
I plugged one of these HDD on a PC, and notice that it works, the other not.
I don't know if is possible to recover these HDD since it seems to be a firmware problem.
Anyone experience something like that, or anyone who can help me? Now I fear to install Windows 10 when it'll be available to the public. I do need it on a BootCamp partition instead of Virtual Machine because of video performance.

I'm not sure if the condition is related, but that version of Windows does not appear on the current list of supported versions.

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