[PyroTails]

I had a problem with a broken hard drive on my laptop, so to try to get the internet on my laptop before it went into repair, I installed Kubuntu onto my external hard drive. I didn't realise at the time, but installing it on there caused it not to respond to Windows. I added Kubuntu as a partition, and the installer said that there was no other partitions on that drive, despite the fact it has all my backups on it. Now whenever I plug the hard drive in via USB, it doesn't turn up, but you can safely remove the hardware. It says it's USB mass storage device. Normally it'd be USB mass storage device (letter). I'm currently using XP on this machine, and my Vista machine returns tonight hopefully. Is there any way that I can recover the data on my hard drive,or delete the Linux partition without deleting everything else on the drive?