Reading Linux data on Widows?

I recently did a fresh install of Windows XP on an older system that had Linux on it. Before I formatted the drive and installed Windows I backed up som .doc and .jpeg files to a thumb drive. After I get Windows installed and all the drivers updated I tried to tranfer the files I backed up on the thumb drive to Windows, but they would not show up. It shows the folder I created, but it states the folder is empty. I did some troubleshooting research on this issue and discovered that Linux based files are not readable on Windows. Is there any way to get these files to show up?

Thanks in advance for any advice. :)

I recently did a fresh install of Windows XP on an older system that had Linux on it. Before I formatted the drive and installed Windows I backed up som .doc and .jpeg files to a thumb drive. After I get Windows installed and all the drivers updated I tried to tranfer the files I backed up on the thumb drive to Windows, but they would not show up. It shows the folder I created, but it states the folder is empty. I did some troubleshooting research on this issue and discovered that Linux based files are not readable on Windows. Is there any way to get these files to show up?

Thanks in advance for any advice. :)

theintrospect79

How about downloading a Linux distro and making a Linux Live CD? You can boot temporarily to Linux and access the old Linux files. Windows sucks for reading many file formats.

i use ext2fs...

however that's if the drive is in ext2/3/4 format, since it was a thumbdrive it was probably fat32 and that wouldn't be issue.

seems like it just didn't copy them

Use a live cd, you dont have to install linux again to access it.  You just temp boot into linux