I did a quick search but came up with nothing. I'll list things in point form to make it less confusing

-I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 with GRUB 1.97
-I have Windows 2000 installed on VirtualBox
-I have an NTFS partition with just music and my data on it, but no windows OS
-I want to take what I have on VirtualBox and put it on my NTFS partition

Can anyone chime in?

Hi -

Perhaps this might work:

1. Log in to Ubuntu.

2. Mount your NTFS partition (if not already auto-mounted).
Verify you have read/write access to NTFS.

3. Start Samba (if not already running).
Publish one or more directories under your NTFS partition as a share.

4. Start Win2k/VBox.
Verify it can see the share.
Verify it has read/write access to the share.

5. Copy your data.

Sound reasonable?

Your .. PSM

Do you hope to make a dual boot setup by taking what is in Virtual Box and putting it into the NTFS partition?

I assume so given you mention grub specifically. Copying data out of VirtualBox is simple, you just create yourself a shared folder and map it to something, maybe the mounted NTFS partition. I usually mount my Home directory.

If you want to do what I think you do, then its going to be tough, or easy. I would use something like Drive Snapshot from within the Virtual Machine and snapshot it to a file and then recovery it back to the partition but it usually deals with snapshotting to drives as opposed to partitions. Plus you'd need to try and run it in wine, which I've not tried to see if you can snapshot it back.

Now I'm thinking about it, its not easy.

Why can't you just use cp to copy all data over to another partition once you've "mapped" it? And then format the desired partition and copy everything back over? Or am I missing something?

The items that are in use won't copy across. You could boot a live cd inside the Windows VM and copy it out I guess.