Ex HDD problem

[Cybrsayr]

I have a external drive I use for both Windows and Ubuntu. I used to be able to use it to view/play windows files on linux with no problems until recently. Now when I try to open the ex HDD on Ubuntu an error message comes up saying it can't mount it on linux anymore?
It worked fine for months until about a week ago.

[ECA]

External??

USB or Firewire...I would check that driver/controller.

any changes recently??

[dang]

what windows os (xp, vista, etc)?

[Cybrsayr]

It's a USB Ex HDD and I run XP Pro and Ubuntu as a dual boot setup. It worked fine for months on both OSs and made no changes that I recall. The only thing I did different recently was plug it into my new laptop with Vista Home Prem and it worked fine with that to. I did download some music files off the newsgroups using the laptop and sent them to the Ex drive with no problems. XP shows/plays them but when I run Ubuntu the Ex drive won't mount this Ex drive any longer.

[Cybrsayr]

Problem solved.
Took some time to figure out and follow the error message details in Ubuntu. It said Windows did not shutdown cleanly and told me what to do. I did as instructed and all is running fine again with this ex HDD reading everything in both XP and linux.