External USB HDD not working after mounting in Ubuntu Linux.

[DrLynx]

My Seagate 500 GB External USB2 HDD was working fine for more than a year. I tried a Ubuntu Live CD (Fiesty Fawn) and tried mounting the drive in it. It worked fine and I could read all data. Tried the ntfs-3g plugin to make all the drives writable also but for some reason it did not work.

I tried booting it back in Windows XP and it said USB device failed. No drive was shown in My Computer.

I tried connecting to two other laptops running Windows XP and the same result.

I tried booting it again in Live CD and it is working perfectly fine and readable in Ubuntu.

And, every time I boot Linux, all the other desktop items I put seems to disappear except a shortcut to my external HDD. Also, in My Computer, my internal drives have a normal icon but my external is having an icon with a orange oval symbol as seen in the screenshot (Vitalix Nointernus is the external hdd).

Screenshot here.

What could be wrong? Did it just get Linux-ed? How do I get it back? It has over 400 GB of data!

 

[pcgeek11]

The orange circle is just the symbol for a USB Device.

It sounds like the ntfs writing enabled isn't such a hot idea on a drive with linux.

Look at the disk under Administrative Tools >> Disk Management. If the disk shows there see if you can mount it under windows.

pcgeek11

 

[DrLynx]

In Control Panel --> Administrative Tools --> Computer Management --> Disk Management, the drive is showing as Drive F: with 465.xx GB capacity. However, under the file system, unlike the other drives, this one is BLANK. There is nothing on. Right clicking it and clicking on OPEN gives the error: Cannot open. File or folder may be corrupted.

Any ideas?