Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to con

There is a problem with one of your hard drives. Your system is finding an error on a filesystem one of the drives. That is why it is not booting and making you do a CTRL-D before it will boot. Did you mess with any settings to do with hard drive, like spin down. You drive's firmware may not have supported the options you chose.

If you are looking for further access to the system drive no. Most of us do through command line.

You can use WinSCP. Here is link for a Windows client:

http://winscp.net/eng/docs/free_ssh_client_for_windows