problems with drive mountring and last update

 Same question as last time but the update I get daily has made it worse. I have a laptop (ugh) that came preinstalled win7 - the dual booted it to ubuntu . have alays been able to access all the files created in WIN via ubuntu. So I could create a file at work on the win half of the system and then at home on the same computer pull up under ubuntu and email or what ever. Since last update I now see odd partitions in my home folder and no indication of the hard drive where the windows things reside. I do not file the "official" way that windows wants you to - I do not use the windows folders of pictures, videos, doccuments etc - so from ubuntu (choses platform) I have no access to the files on the other half of my computer.

The first folder/partition that happened was the hddrecovery - I started getting an error message saying I did not have enough rooom - I cannot access this from the windows side at all = cannot even identify where it is.

The second thing is that i did not see a mounting address for the hard drive period.. this I used to click on and find what I needed.

Please do not respond with sarcasm - I am asking for help