How does Windows lose a hard disk?
 

I'm running a dual boot system with Ubuntu as the primary boot and Windows as secondary. Windows now refuses to talk to a hard drive that's worked quite happily for the past two years - despite it being recognised by the BIOS and fully accessible by Ubuntu.

The drive is an IDE drive on the primary slave. The IDE drive on the primary master (containing both OSs) is quite happy and runs with no problems.

The only other thing of note is the Hauppauge HVR-1300 that got installed last weekend on Windows. The disk was still accessible on after everything was installed then though. Windows also reports no conflicts and manually checking the resources used for the IDE vs the HVR-1300 don't show any overlaps.

Any thoughts?

Re: How does Windows lose a hard disk?
 

remove the ide controller in cp and reboot force it to reinstal maybe ( at own risk ;))
also have a look in event viewer hardware to see if any bad disk warnings are present

Re: How does Windows lose a hard disk?
 

I'd wondered about the remove and reboot, but that's the primary disk controller - removing Windows access to the OS disk...

Can you remind me again where the event viewer is?

Re: How does Windows lose a hard disk?
 

Windows can't read Ext2 partitions, which Ubuntu uses

Try this

Re: How does Windows lose a hard disk?
 

Right click "My Computer" > "Manage" :)

Re: How does Windows lose a hard disk?
 

Eventvwr from the run box.

Re: How does Windows lose a hard disk?
 

Not by default but there is a driver on there for that already (EXT2 IFS). The Ext2 IFS driver is really confusing Windows now - it's telling Windows a disk is there and Windows says it's not. Besides the physical disk is split in to 3 partitions - 2 are FAT32 and the third is EXT2. Windows has forgotten all 3 partitions.

I'll take a look through the event viewer logs when I get home.