1 TB HDD shows as 32MB

WD Internal Drives Desktop & Mobile Drives
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OK.

Thanks to your link…i ended up here.

http://community.wd.com/t5/Desktop-Mobile-Drives/1-5-tb-black-is-now-reading-500-gb/m-p/241688

that led me to this program

http://dmde.com/download.html

And…ITS FIXEEEEEEEED

Just for the record in case some1 may have the same problem, this is what i did to fix it.

  1. I downloaded HDAT2 (since the other 2 of the “Trinity” didn’t work).

  2. I ran it, and obviously it gave me error (Abort, Retry, Fail…i chose Fail…the gods must have guided my hand)

  3. The program proceeded and i removed the hateful HPA ( Host Protected Area )

I rebooted and noticed BIOS recognized my HDD as 1000GB instead of 0.0. YAY…windows didn’t tho, so here’s what i did then

  1. I downloaded DMDE (very intuitive and easy to use)

  2. I recovered some lost data just by clicking it, and so i understood the data was safe and sound and could be recovered.

  3. I DELETED the 32 MB FAT32 partition.

  4. I then used the command “Insert the Partition (Undelete)” on both my greyed out partitions (those that had disappeared)

  5. Reboot and here i am, with C:, D:\ E:, F:.…AND ALL MY FILES BACK.

Thank you fzabkar for pointing me to that guide. It had ALL i needed to make this work.