craftyc, thanks for the reply for the first two questions
For the third one, I found a small tool called "explore2fs-1.00pre6" which has read-only access under Windows to the ext2/3 file system of Linux. Thus I was able to view the contents of the ext2 partitions. But the thing is you can't have write access
what I need it to copy my C:\Downloads\VMWare to D: drive (which is now in ext2 file system. I can't access the C: drive the linux (made a new topic for that) so I can't access the VMWare installation from Linux.
For those first two answers: I should check them as soon as I reboot.
And oscar2043, your info great whenever for some reason I have to get rid of linux...