I assume that you were following the directions on the wiki page located
here?
When you have the partition mounted, is the output of the
mount command the same as on the wiki page.
Also, hda1 is your actual Windows drive? The command
ls -l /mnt/hda1/ shows your Windows file structure, as in the example?
Some systems have a hidden recovery partition, which may be hda1. Just checking to see if this is not the case with your system.
Finally, what type of files did you write to the partition, and did you write them to the root directory, or elsewhere?