hi. i came across this tonight, hoping it won't seem spam-ish to mention it, and that it might be of use to those who are running a dual-boot system with ms-windows 95,98, or NT installed alongside debian:
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm 's for reading an ex2fs partition from a boot-to-ms-w. -- s.c.