hardy can read ntfs drives without installing something... however for writing to ntfs you need to install ntfs-3g.
If you can't mount the ntfs driven, then there might have been an improper shutdown of it. Best you hook it up to a windows machine and shut it down there safely.
Btw, if you have two computers that are networked, attach the drive to the windows computer...
on your linux box install ssh server
Code:
sudo apt-get install openssh-server
Then download WinSCP (http://www.winscp.com) on Windows, install it and run it.
Enter your IP of the ubuntu server and also the username and password for your system user on the ubuntu server.
Then you are connected to it.
You could also setup samba (which you probably will do anyway) to put the data onto to the server.
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