I ran into a similar problem once with a standalone dvd-r player/recorder.
The timer window was set with a minute over capturing some regular show on a cable channel.
A movie came on before the timer stopped and I couldn’t burn the usual disc. There was some kind of copy protection.
Gee that’s not a problem for me. What movies are worth watching? Here’s your problem. Why are you paying for movies that are not worth watching? Why would you pay for dog turd? See? I just solved your problem.
If you really want that krap, you can play them while you video capture them on another machine. USB video capture devices are cheap.
Windows can certainly “read” linux formatted media. Ext2IFS used to work with windoze xp, and can be tweaked to work with Windoze 7, but beyond that, I don’t know, and it really only works well with ext3 formats. Later versions of nix formatted media do not work well with this.
You can go into the medium (linux boot) with PARAGON which is an ext file info system, rename uig:gid to “0” and then all files will belong to root, reboot and sudo a copy to fat file system.
I have a feeling the original poster may have bitten off more than he can chew here. I know it would certainly be beyond my technical competence.
I think he will just have to pay up :)