bind-home.conf not binding to /home on LL2.4/win8.1 UEFI dual boot set-up

[gold_finger]

That is strange -- I don't know why booting gets messed up when you switch out the drives.

Re-installing grub is different with UEFI.  Unfortunately, I can't remember the steps for that; but you can use your live Ubuntu DVD/USB again and run Boot-Repair from that.  Just make sure you boot the Ubuntu disk in UEFI mode, then follow instructions for installing Boot-Repair to live environment and running the "Recommended Repair" on this page:  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-R..._in_Ubuntu.  That should do the same thing as you manually entering the commands (that I can't remember).

Boot-Repair will spit out a pastebin page with its results after you run it.  Save that page's address just in case it doesn't fix things.  It may have clues as to what's wrong.  Run Boot-Repair a second time if first time didn't work.

P.s.  If you get booting sorted back out, after you test bind access to NTFS partition, test out symlinking to the partition too.  Just navigate to /mnt/DATA and make a new folder called "Testing" on it.  Then just make a random test text file in it.  When done, create a symlink to your home with this command (substitute real username):

Code:

ln -s /mnt/DATA/Testing /home/username

Open home folder in Thunar file manager and see if you have access to that folder and can open the test file.