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

[m654321]

Many thanks goldfinger.
Success at last, but before I got there, here's a brief recount...

As my win8.1/LL2.4 dual-boot setup, with sdb's /mnt/DATA on an nfts partition, failed to boot after placing this setup back into the laptop (on two drives - sda & sdb), I then tried to boot into the live environment of Ubuntu 14.10 (DVD) in UEFI mode, to do the necessary boot repair that you suggested so I'd get my grub screen back. 

No luck: after initially downloading files from the Ubuntu live DVD, the process got stuck at the Ubuntu screen, and didn't boot, hanging indefinitely at the orange screen with Ubuntu + logo.  So, I deleted the LL partitions (again) on sda, and reinstalled LL to get the fully functional UEFI dual boot up & running again, with LL home directory installed as root.

When done, I then booted to Win8.1, gave sdb a drive label (i.e. D, so that it was accessible in Windows, and did what you suggested and put a notepad file within one of the folders on D:, then tested for binding but LL failed to detect any notepad file in 'Testing': so again no binding.  I then did the symlink test you suggested, and it worked. 

Following the success with the symlink test,  I then deleted the contents of my bind-home.conf file, deleted all folders in Home (except Desktop), and symlinked all 12 folders in /mnt/DATA to Home.  It worked.  I'm now setting up win 7 in a virtual machine (VMs stored on sdb) and am curious to see if it all runs smoothly with the symlinking - so far so good...  Also interested to see if the VM will access the data folders on sdb.  I'll report back when this is done, before giving this thread a 'topic solved'.

Regards
Mike