Originally Posted by alsenior
it is likely the the partition identifier has become corrupt.
the one for ntfs is 0x07
the one for ext2 is 0x83
so those 2 bytes have been corrupted. but Linux looks at the file system by other ways than the partition identifier but windows does not.
thats how i think i goes though I'm not entirely sure
So, if I understand you correctly, you are saying that, somehow, both identifiers are there, rather than one, so that Windows sees an identifier that tells it is a Windows hard disk; and the Linux drivers see an identifier that tells it is a Linux hard disk?
But does that in anyway explain how the stuff that was there BEFORE I deleted the Linux ext2 partition and replaced it with an NTFS partition is still there and accessible?
I'm not saying it doesn't, I'm just asking a question?