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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

Not enough information to be able to determine.

What other information do you need?

Thanks
Dave

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.

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

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

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.