iPod as external harddrive (Score 1)

while it's true that iPod works as an external harddrive for any firewire equiped computer, the file system used is HFS+, which is not supported by windows or linux. There's a project on sourceforge to add HFS+ support for linux, but it's still in pre-alpha stage.

So the only solution is to buy some third party software that lets you read HFS+ under windows.