WD data lifeguard tools on a HDD with data on it

I installed a new 200GB hard drive as a slave drive using western
digital data lifeguard tools.

After uninstalling some software, Windows 2000 (SP4) now reports the
drive as unformatted.

I have used various utilities to confirm the drive is ok, and the data
is still there (it is)

If I use western digital data lifeguard tools to set up the drive
again, I will lose my data as threre is no option other than partition
and format the drive - losing all data.

my master (boot) drive is a Quantum HDD

I assume that data lifeguard installs some kind of dynamic drive
overlay software on the boot disk. If so, how could I check for this?
Also, is dynamic drive overlay software installed on the boot sector of
the master (boot) drive, or the slave (non-bootable) drive?

Note: I can't use data recovery software to recover the data because I
do not have anywhere to put it

Further note: yes, I have searched and searched for an answer, but
could not find one. If there is a thread that I should read, please
notify me and I will read it.

Thanks