[RicheemxX]

Dooog you aren't the only one lost there, that's part of the reason I was asking if he was trying to recover the windows files. If its just a bad case of malware/adware ect then there isn't really a big concern over infected doc's, jpegs ect. However some viruses attach themselves to those so you'd need to scan the drive and quarantine anything nasty.

If its a bad ass virus, then it might be a bit more slippery. Personally I've never liked backing up from an infected machine. But pretty much the same goes, scan the hell out of it, remove what you have to and then you only back up the personal info that is an absolute must. Then scan the hell out of that disk

Not sure about ubuntu word for windows, but open office should work fine to open them.

Afaik there aren't any (or maybe not many) cross OS viruses that would run both in windows and linux but IDK. I've never seen much concern voiced over having an infected windows drive attached to linux.

Again I myself have always had some of the same similar questions, personally I've never been hit with a bad virus, some crappy malware here and there but nothing devastating. Anything really nasty I've run across I've always gone for the nuke it and forget it theory. Format fresh and reinstall FTW