When I look at the sd card in windows I can see what looks like a boot partition, then there is a larger partition that can been seen by windows but is unreadable. I presume this is a linux partition not fat32? I get a power and act light solid on my board. nothing on screen. doesn't show up on router. 
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Though the Pi supports many filesystem types, the most common is called 'ext4'.
Windows does not natively know how to attach an 'ext4' filesystem, but there are a number of free utilities for Windows that do this.
You might try one of these:
And I'm sure there are many others.
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ext4, whereas thebootpartition isfat32. Your best bet for access to this partition is to make a bootable USB thumb drive (Ubuntu is a good one), and use this bootable drive to boot your Windows machine into Ubuntu.