[newbie] HELP! Linux stole my windows partition!!!

[John I. Azeke]

I was looking at some of my windows 98 mpeg files under L. Mandrake 7.1 yesterday and when I rebooted the computer into windows, The partition of windows that contains all of my personal files was gone!  Confused, I went back into Mandrake and the partition was still present with all information.  I don't know why I can't see it under Windows.    When Mandrake is performing its shut down sequence, There is a FAIL on "stopping identd services"   I have tried: 1) detecting new harware under windows... No Good 2) unmounting the drive under Linux before restarting... No Good   Can anyone help me?