Healthy (Unknown) Partition issue solved

After re-installing Windows XP from Pre-desktop area, one of my FAT 32 partitions was not visible to Windows. Disk Management utility was reporting this partition as "Healthy (unknown) Partition - FAT 32"
... I found this funny

Anyway, here is how the problem was solved (with help from a geek friend)
PLEASE NOTE : Take backup of your data before you try these steps.

1. I booted into Ubuntu. Ubuntu had not problem in identifying and accessing the same FAT 32 partition
2. As root, I started FDISK using the following command
   fdisk /dev/sda
   entered p to print partition table
   This displayed the following:
   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
   /dev/sda1 * 1 2042 15437488+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
   /dev/sda2 2043 5418 25521615 c Hidden W95 FAT32
3. In the above I noticed that the partition type was set as Hidden W95 FAT32 instead of W95 FAT32 (LBA). So I changed the same with following steps
   t (to change a partition's system id)
   Enter the partition number. in my case its 2
   Partition number (1-7): 2
   Enter the Hex code for the partition type W95 FAT32 (LBA) i.e. c
   Hex code (type L to list codes): c
   
4. Commited the above changes by entering w
   
   

The above solved my problem. Next time when I booted into Windows, I could see and access the FAT32 partition.