My computer suddenly crashed yesterday. I run win 7 recovery and chkdsk on my WD 1tb sata disk to find everything is corrupt, every single bit. Try formatting get "the media being formatted has been removed or has become invalid".
So I assume its the hard drive, plug another one in (ide this time) with a copy of windows on it, and get no further than a nondescript BSOD, computer automatically restarts, rinse and repeat.
I plug the sata drive into my partners computer and set it to master, it wont load anything still and run chkdsk to get the same corrupt files.
So obvioulsy the hard drive is screwed I have accepted that, but it doesnt explain the other hard drive not working in my computer. I am scared to try another hard drive, or buy a new one and connect it. Is it possible that my computer is frying the hard drives? If so which bit would it be? Ive ran a memory check and the ram seems fine, dvd drive working fine. I don't really know what to do next so any help would be appreciated :/

Motherboard : Gigabyte S-series GA-M61PME-S2P
Hard drive - WD10EARS 1tb sata

I plug the sata drive into my partners computer and set it to master

There is no such thing as Master and Slave for SATA drives so it is not possible you set it to Master. Did you mean IDE?

Plugging a drive that has Windows installed on it into the boot position can easily cause a BSOD because that version of Windows has all the drivers for different hardware. So besides that being illegal (the license belongs to the other computer) is will not work.

Your WD 1Tb drive is likely still under warranty. WD warranties their drives for 3 or 5 years, depending on the model. Go to WD Support / Warranty Services / Warranty Services for End User Customers and plug in your drive's serial number. If still under warranty, they will send you a new drive for free. You send the old drive back in the same box as the replacement. You pay for return shipping.

While it is possible a bad motherboard controller can be taking out your drives, I think you just have a bad drive and the other problem is because of incorrect drivers.