Hard disk works in Linux but not Windows

I have a 350 Gig Seagate hard drive that I'd assumed had died, tried it in 3 different machines and they see it in the BIOS but nothing when Windows boots.

There is a lot of data on it that needs recovering but before I investigated that option I thought I'd try booting to a Ubuntu CD with it. Well it works in Ubuntu and I can see all of the data.

Now before I start copying it off the disk onto another one is there a simple way to get the hard drive working in Windows again? Has anyone else come across this problem and if so how did you fix it?

Thanks in advance.

If you can see the files in Ubuntu or Knoppix and CAN copy them off, why would you keep screwing around?

Do so, confirm the files are indeed copied, then 0 write the drive.

http://www.dban.org/

Are you trying to install a new OS or did the old OS just stop working?

I've seen some computers with something in the BIOS that disables any attempt to install other version of Windows (yet Ubuntu installed OK). What I did to resolve this was to reset the BIOS then do a hard reboot - I was able to use my own Windows discs afterwords as opposed to what the BIOS initially wanted.

To save data - boot w/ a CD of the same OS and then try to "repair" the OS. Or, just install over the old Windows directory WITHOUT a format.

Thanks for the replies, yes I copied the data over to another disk using Ubuntu. It was a data disk, no operating system on it, was just curious as to how this happened and if anyone else had seen the problem before as I haven't.

Fired it back up in Windows and went into disk manager where I was able to re-initialize the disk so M$ could read it again - no data loss there either.

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