Time Machine to Windows Vista?!

I just downloaded windows vista on my MacBook as a 32GB partition. I was wondering if there is a way to retreive my saved music library from itunes in Time Machine and unload it on the windows vista partion.
Any ideas?
Thanks

Not directly since TM will not work in Windows, but you can transfer the iTunes library provided your Windows partition is formatted FAT32 and not NTFS. If the latter then you have a problem since OS X cannot write to an NTFS formatted volume.

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