accessing linux files from xp and internet problem

[bigdbag]

Hi all, I'm a linux newbie.
My computer's specs are the following:
Asus Nagami2 mobo
nVidia 7300GT GDDR3
AMD Athlon 64 3800+
1 Gb dualchannel ddr ram
160GB Maxtor SATA-150 HD
200GB Seagate SATA-150 HD

My computer is set up in the following way:
The 200GB Seagate has my XP Pro OS. The 160GB Maxtor has my Suse 10 linux.

A while back I backed all my xp data up on an external hd and my linux hd. However, my external hd became corrupted 2 months ago and now my only backup is on the linux hd, only to discover that it's not possible to copy back to xp from suse linux. A month ago, a friend told me that actually it is possible to do so, in 2 ways, in fact. One was a beta driver that may corrupt data while copying back to xp. The other was to create a fat32 partition on my xp hd and copy files from suse to the fat partition and then to xp. However, the beta driver I'm not willing to risk using, and the fat32 idea I could not get to work. Can anyone show me how to copy files from my suse to my xp?

Another problem I've been having is my internet keeps dying on my suse linux. I use a static IP connection from my verizon fios router and the only way I can get it to work is by repairing suse every time I use it. Repairing Suse from the boot cd apparently repairs my internet connection, but only for that session. The next time it does not work again. Help!

Thank you for any help possible!

[Zelmo]

If you have SuSE installed using ext2 or ext3, you can install this Windows driver to read the Linux drive.

[bigdbag]

Thanks for your reply!
The software you pointed me to installed correctly and recognized the 3 partitions on my other hard drive. However, in My Computer, if I double click, the message "Drive X is not formatted. Would you like to format?" comes up. In the troubleshooting page of the software page, I was told to run mountdiag.exe, and I used it to get the following message from the diagnostic tool: "The volume has not been mounted. No file system has been recognized. You may look at the /etc/fstab file of your Linux installation to get more information." What does this mean?