WinXP <-> Linux help

[Parduz]

Ok, i need some help.
I have a TV Decoder that can record on a USB disk. That thing build a JFS partition on the USB device and save the record there.
Now i want to save the recorded file in a NTFS partition.... using XP.

After some googling i've found a thread that was saying that CoLinux was able to do the work, and that Topologilinux was the best "thing" for using it.
So i installed it, and now i can run under XP a VNC window which show a Gnome interface.... which is unable to see any disk other than "filesystem" (so, no local and no USB disks).

I know nothing about Linux, and frankly i'm not willing to learn nothing more that the minimum required to do this task... i think that my knowledge of 3 OS and 5-6 programming languages is enough for my poor brain

1) There's anyone able to tell me, step-by-step, what to do to make that Gnome/coLinux/whatever-it-is seeing my hard drives?

2) There's another EASY method that may allow me to read JFS partitions WITHOUT HAVING TO REBOOT each time i want to do it?


Thanks.

[nikloveland]

Hmmm... parduz I'm just guessing but this might not be the place to be asking those kinds of questions. That's a rather specific/technical computer problem and I think only 20% of the readers here would even understand what you're asking. We've got you covered when it comes to paper & pen hobbies but this might go a bit beyond that.

Now that being said (and not wanting to be unhelpful) I would suggest setting up a virtual machine that runs Linux (I recommend Ubuntu). Oracle (originally Sun) releases a free one called VirtualBox that I use rather frequently and will read USB devices connected to the host machine. You can also setup shared folders between the guest and host to transfer files.

[Parduz]

Thanks Nik.
It seems to me that a good number of users are using Linux, and to me, who use linux is a geek by default
Now, i may have been wrong on both the statements.

Thanks for your tips, i'll see what that all means.

[Sirrob01]

As much as Id love to help my experience with linux has likewise been ubuntu which is very plug and play.

At a guess I'd say you may need to manually mount the drives but for the life of me I can't remeber how to mount a drive in linux manually.

I Switched back to XP when I couldnt find a decent video editing app for linux or even one as bad as the default windows one...