Hi all, Not to beat a dead horse but yes I can assure you all that windoze cannot see linux. Windoze cant see anything outside of its partition, except linux can see windows. Personally I would uninstall linux and format your C drive and reinstall windoze and use partition magic and reinstall linux clean. If that still doesnt work then get a new hard drive because then it really is a hardware issue. I run scandisk and defrag once a month and it has never hurt my linux partition. Give it a go and let us know what happens. Chronos.