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[pags]

There is software for Windows that will allow it to access an ext3 filesystem (not sure what it is ... Google should help).

Is this it Pags ?

http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/

That's one (read-only ... if that's what you want).

A quick google for "windows ext3" gets:
http://www.fs-driver.org/ (first hit)
http://www.howtoforge.com/access-linux-partitions-from-windows (second hit)
and you're link is the third hit...

Lot's of choice 

[bicol_willem]

Well guys (thanks for thinking along with me) I went for NTFS and got involved with crazy other problems (folder doesn't excist etc.). Got to impatience to cope with all that, whatever caused it, and went for ext3 which instantly did the trick (why? I will probably never know!). So, solved partly for my sharing Windows-lovers-friends has to excuse me this time 
Selfish spoken: My problem is solved (although I still don't grasp the "in's and out's).