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Windows not detecting 2nd partition

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electrorcamd

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I have Windows Server 2003 EE evaluation edition installed on my computer. I have 2 hard drives, one for Linux and one for Windows; the Windows drive has two partitions. The first is NTFS, the second is FAT32. I was using Overclockix and tried to install it to my Linux drive and it didn't work. I then rebooted and did fdisk /mbr to wipe the bootloader from another os that wouldn't let Windows boot. Then when I rebooted in Windows, I couldn't get to the FAT32 partition on my Windows drive. I can mount it and browse through everything in Linux fine; the partition just won't show up in Windows.
How can I get this partition to show up?
 
I ran both fixmbr and fixboot; Windows still won't list the drive in My Computer.
Anything else I can try?

Edit: I think I found the problem, but I don't know if I can fix it without reformatting the FAT32 partition. When I go to the properties for the drive, then to the volumes tab, it shows both partitions. When I go to properties for the missing partition, it shows no type with a raw filesystem and a capacity of 0 bytes. Can I restore the filesystem somehow, since Linux detects it, or should I just reformat the second partition?

Thanks
 
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