erm- I sorely need some simple assitance.. My Ubuntu 11 crashed bigtime after switching on a some driver, and I have no way of figuring it all out on my own, so I am going to do a clean reinstall..

However. I in a moment of silliness forgot to make backup of the most essential files on my laptop.. So I want to try to recover them using the windows 7 (gulp!) partition, as that is the only way currently that I can make any meaningful communication with my machine.

So I wonder if anyone can tell me how I go about to enter the main ubuntu partition and retrieving my files onto Windows, before I start from scratch again?

Ok?