Hard drive missing after switching from linux to windows7

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so yesterday i decided to try to switch from Linux Mint back to windows 7. (i had recently got the windows failed to start error on windows 7 so i had Linux Mint as a temporary solution)
And when i got into the windows installer and was about to select a hard drive to install windows on, one of my hard drives was missing and my ssd was split into 3 different hard drives (one big one and two insanely small ones)

When i saw that i just thought something like: "ahh this will probaly fix itself once i get windows running" and i was soo wrong about that. I looked into the bios and my 3rd hard drive (which is the hard drive missing) doesnt even show up in the BIOS under the SATA connection or whatever its called. I tried opening up my pc to see if my hard drive was poperly connected to my motherboard, and it was, i even tried to switch the sata port on the hard drive. So now im sitting here with a splitted hard drive and another one gone and dont know what to do. I just got a windows 8.1 cd in the mail a few minutes ago that im gonna try when i get home from shcool, but if that doesnt work i have no idea, I would be glad if anyone had any suggestions for something i could do
 

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Thats what i tried to look into to, but my 500g hard drive doesnt even show up and i dont know what to do with the hard drive that is splitted.
Heere are some pictures that i took yesterday after formatting:
http://imgur.com/4NpCPGA
http://imgur.com/5Sik7sQ
http://imgur.com/MCmRIZc
http://imgur.com/mzX14vL

the disk managment isnt excatly like i described it because i tried to delete one and get it back or something, i dont remember everything, but you can atleast see that there is no 500gb hard drive there.
 

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well that sucks.
i was told by someone to go back to linux and use Gparted to try to fix it since windows 7 doesnt do a very good job with disks and partitions or whatever. And if that doesnt work i just have to count on windows 8.1 to save my day... wish me luck xD
 

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Lol yeah. someone told me to try linux to fix it and I never did. maybe try running linux off a thumb drive and seeing if you can't get into it like that
 

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well, its pretty much my only hope right now.. so i'll give it a try when i get home
 

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Let me know how it works for you cause I might need to use do it too.
 

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I'll do that, i get home in about 3 hours so i'll report back as soon as i can
 

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Okay so i have now installed windows 8.1 on my system.
I was able to fix the splitted hard drive in Linux Mint Petra 16 by just deleting og resizing the partitions and the hard drive, but it seems like my 500g was corrupted when i tried to install linux mint onto it a few days ago which i might be able to fix inside windows 8