I want to remove linux from my comp. Not because I don’t like it, but its slow on my old used comp and I -really- need that disk space untill I can upgrade.
I can wipe it fine, but I have a few files on there that I want to keep. Is there a way to salvage those onto my ntfs drive?
explore2fs
their Beta version will allow copying files to NTFS from Ext3, but Ext2 is the native format the software uses.
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Thanks, I’ll look into that 
BTW its a Windows software, and is run through windows.
it allows you to read the Ext2/3 filesystems from inside windows.
not the other way around.
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Do you all know of any programs that will do this for Reiser file systems? That is what I have on my drives and need to reinstall linux. Somehow my system has stoped responding to USB. Guess what kinda KB and mouse I use!
I have some files there I do not want to loose when I reinstall. I would like to move them to windows till I can put them back where they belong. In the past I have kept a dos partition for the purpose of passing files from windows to linux and back. But that only works if I can access linux
a google search would be as good as how i found the software i used… i used google too.
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Actually, i dont know how to format it.
( i thought, i’d just bump it up, sence i finally decided to ACTUALLY format the drive. )
So how would i format a drive that has a FS thats ext2, or ext3 ( i dont really know what it is anymore ) from my NTFS windows XP?
Explore2fs has a button that says FORMAT but its always disabled.
Simly delete the linux partition, create a new ntfs partition, format it
http://www.d-silence.com/feature.php?id=246
Woah! Thats awesome, thank you!
One question though, it was devided into 2 partitions, on was quite small, and labled Extended Partition and Logical drive. It also says it was an Unknown Partition. Should I get rid of that? I want the whole drive clean for extended file storage, and I dont know if thats needed, or would that be the SWAP partition linux has?
This is a bootable cd that has very handy disk and file tools. If you boot from it you are in linux (gentoo if I remember correctly). Qtparted works very nicely
for partitions, and will handle most file systems. Also has utilities for backing up files, restoring boot loaders, etc.
http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
Hope this might help. 
You can delete all the partitions not recognized by windows. If you use the live cd from previous post, you will be able to see the partition types and the small one will probably be the swap or boot partition. In both cases you can wipe them clean, because without linux they are useless.