Windows doesn't recognize WD Elements all the sudden but Ubuntu does

Hey guys A couple of months ago I bought a WD Elements HDD and everything worked fine up till a few weeks ago. All the sudden the drive became unreadable. It does show in "My Computer", but not with the name I gave it. It has the name "Local Disk (I)" and nothing more. And what's even worse, when I doubleclick it, my explorer crashes. The same goes for device management. The drive is basicly unreachable. Some crucial information though. From the moment I bought the HDD I intended to split it in two partitions. One partition (250 GB) has been formatted to a EXT4 file system so I could install Ubuntu on it and another one was formatted to a FAT32 (250 GB) file system so I could use that space for both Windows and Linux. For like 2 months that worked perfectly so I do not believe it has anything to do with the split-up. However, what I do think is strange is that I can boot to Ubuntu without any problems and even acces my files on my FAT32 file system. I do not use Linux often and I do not want to keep porting files to my USB stick just because the HDD is not being recognized by Windows. It really gets ennoying and I'd like to solve this. Thanks in advanceRuben Labruyere

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It's possible for Windows to have a file system conflict. How is the hard drive detected within Windows Disk Management?

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