Hi,

Just to correct something. You can actually enable  Mac native write and read 
support to NTFS partitions by enabling it through Terminal. No extra software 
is required to do this. However, if the disk is ever ejected, this permission 
will be reversed and you will have to enable it again. As long as you can 
actually see your bootcamp partition on the Mac, however, you'll be fine. It's 
a longer process, and I probably wouldn't recommend doing it if you are not 
comfortable using Terminal and command line interfaces. Also, if you have 
third-party drivers which will enable read/write support, it is recommended to 
uninstall them. I'm assuming you do not, though, but for anyone else who wants 
to attempt doing this.

I'll paste in the link to the post I wrote to Macvisionaries a few months ago. 
Sadly, it messed up my pretty formatting. :(

Here you go anyway.

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg15874.html

Regards,
Nic
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On Mar 18, 2010, at 4:00 AM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote:

> This is all dependant on the version of file system drivers that are loaded 
> on the specified operating system.
> Windows and Macs look at files in very different ways.  A Mac can read 
> Windows files that are created with the "FAT" file system, but not the "NTFS" 
> file system. And Macintosh "HFS" and "HFS+" file systems are generally not 
> usable via a standard windows installation.  
> 
> You have a few options that are listed out quite well in "Take Control of 
> Running Windows on a Macintosh" book. In general, the Virtual machines can do 
> this translation, or you can buy third party FS drivers that will allow 
> either Read-Only or full access in one ddirection.
> 
> In general you are probably safer to use external disk drive formatted in FAT 
> and just copy the files you want.  If you have an on-going need to transfer 
> files easily when you are in Windows, then the tools to do this cost less 
> then $100. But for that price you can get a reasonable flash drive too.
> 
> Jon
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