Help. Unreadable hard drive

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Windows doesn't read my external hard drive. I have 2 partitions on it and when plug it in, Windows only sees the 1st partition but I can only format it. I tried looking in Disk Management to no avail. The 2nd partition is non existant in Windows.
It however reads fine with all data intact on both partitions using linux but I have no idea how to fix it in linux either. How do I make it readable again in Windows?

What it is with Windows that it can't read a hard/flash drive but linux can? I had a "corrupted" memory card before that wouldn't work in Windows but linux would read it like nothing was wrong with it and was able to recover everything from it.

Forgot to mention, it's "unreadable" because I accidentally unplugged it when it was in operation :D
 
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