Not seeing an external HD in windows through boot camp ...

Last week I ran boot camp with a (200GB) external hard drive and was able to see the hard drive in both windows and mac. This week I had the HD enclosure fail, put the HD in a new case, reformatted it as Mac OS X (Journaled) and was back in business ... on the Mac side.
Windows no longer sees the external as part of 'My Computer' - even though it shows in the device manager and says it is 'working properly'. Not remembering how I formatted the first time around when everything was working together, should it be viewable as a Mac Journaled drive? Does everything have to be FAT ... drive and windows?
Just looking for some confirmation on whether to reinstall boot camp, or transfer the drive contents and reformat that ... either one is going to take a long time ... and perhaps I just need to do both.
I know the boot camp information stated Mac would not be able to read or write to the windows side as NTFS ... and I'm ok with that - I just want the hard drive to work with both sides.

Hi and welcome to Discussions,
Windows can not see or use harddisk or partitions on harddisks that use the Mac OSX Extended (journaled) file system.
It's a limitation of Windows and has nothing to do with BootCamp.
Windows can see/use its own file system (FAT32 and NTFS).
Mac OSX can read/write from/to FAT32 partitions, but can only read from NTFS partitions.
So FAT32 would be your first choice for file system to access the external HD from both OSX and Windows.
However FAT32 has a built-in single-file size limitation of 4GB.
Depending on your useage of the external HD there are several solutions:
1. leave it as Mac OSX Extended and get MacDrive for read/write access from Windows.
2. use FAT32 (called MS-DOS in OSX Disk Utility) as file system, if you can live with the file-size limitation
3. use NTFS as file system and get Paragons NTFS for OSX for read and write access from OSX
4. partition the external HD with two partitions, one for OSX and one for Windows
http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/
Regards
Stefan

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