I have +500 GB of data on my 1T drive. I have not used in for a few months and today I can only see a 32 GB drive on either my XP SP3 (patched) or my Mac 10.6. Any ideas?
If your PC has a Gigabyte motherboard, anf if instead of 32GB you meant 32MB, then you may be a victim of a bug in Gigabyte’s Xpress Recovery BIOS. Fortunately there is a simple solution. See the following threads.
http://community.wdc.com/t5/Other-Internal-Drives/wdidle3-broke-my-wd10ears-hard-disk/m-p/40589#M404
http://community.wdc.com/t5/Desktop/1-5-terrabyte-used-as-temporarily-backup-suddenly-shows-up-as/m-p/10747#M614
http://forum.hddguru.com/lost-partition-hitachi-1gb-hdt721010sla360-t15662.html
Thanks for the idea, but it is just under 32 GB. It is one directory of the several on the drive. Files appear ok, I simply cannot see the rest of the drive.
Your description is confusing. Is your BIOS seeing the full 1TB capacity? When you say “directory”, do you really mean “partition”?
Could we see the partition table and boot sector(s) with Microsoft’s Sector Inspector?
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/SecInspect.zip
Extract the above archive to the one folder and execute the SIrun.bat file. The procedure will generate a report file named SIout.txt which you can then upload to a file sharing service so that we can examine it.
