Help! Router repartitioned my drive, can't see my data!

I think I've lost about a TB worth of data. I'm rebulding a computer and had my hard drive, a Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB, in an external enclosure so that I could access files from it until I could move them to a new drive. I just happened to hook the drive up to the USB port on my new Linksys EA3500 router and now I can't see anything. I believe the process of plugging the drive in, allowed the router to mess with the partition table of my drive. Before, when things worked I saw three logical drives. one of about 50-75 MB of reserved space. One of about 80 GB that was my original system drive and one of about 920 GB that was my main data drive. All of these were NTFS. Now when I look at the drive, all I see is one drive FAT32 drive of about 71 MB.
If I look at the drive under Computer Management, Storage, Disk Management, I see the drive is made up of a 71 MB FAT 32 Primary Partition and a 932 GB Unallocated partition.
Am I totally screwed? Is my data still there and is there any way for me to access it or any utilities I can use to get to my data in this unallocated partition? What the heck did this thing do to my drive without permission?!
Help! Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Much thanks in advance.
- Byron Followell

Yes, I did, and no, I could not see any of my files.
Luckily I purchased recovery software, GetDataBack, many years ago. I downloaded the current version for NTFS and after several hours of scanning, am able to view most of my data from within the program but I can see nothing directly from Windows. I have a couple of days of very inconvenient and very time-consuming recovery ahead of me.
Hopefully I will be able to get most, if not all, of my files back.
Now my concern is, what the heck did my router do to my drive that caused this in the first place? Even if it wasn't compatible, how could it just repartition/corrupt my drive this way?
- Byron

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