Expose windows drive to host?

[db]

Is there some way to make a Windows drive available to the host system?
I have a special windows only driver which modifies the content of the drive.

Thanks
Dave

[Perryg]

Not enough information to be able to determine.

[db]

What other information do you need?

Thanks
Dave

[mpack]

Well, a hint as to what "host system" consists of might be a good start, as would a more exact description of "modifies the contents of the drive" - e.g. if it formatted the drive with a proprietary filesystem, or encrypted the contents, then the drive would not be usable on any host.

[db]

Ok sure. My host system is Gentoo linux. I have WIndows XP running as a guest. The underlying media of the windows drive is encrypted, but the windows driver decrypts it so that the Windows driver letter contents are unecrypted and exposed as a UDF version 2.5 filesystem in the Windows drive letter I am trying to expose that windows drive letter and it's UDF filesystem through to linux.

Thanks for your help
Dave

[Martin]

I think the only realistic way is to create a windows network share of that drive and mount it using samba from the host.

[mpack]

One some hosts there are virtual disk drivers that make some virtual disk formats (e.g. VMDK, VHD) accessible from the host, outside of VirtualBox - of course using these while VBox is running would be a rather bad idea (even if permissions allow it).

On some hosts there is software which can browse into virtual disk formats without actually mounting them.

Unfortunately, the software I know is for Windows, not Gentoo Linux: others will have to advise you there.