Seems we finally get some HFS drivers for Windows natively with snow leopards bootcamp.

http://www.macrumors.com/2009/05/06/snow-l...indows-drivers/

Sweeeeeeeeeeet
Now I can finally get rid of FAT32 as my sharing partition.

Now Snow Leopard will have native support for NTFS and Windows will support HFS+. It's a dream come true, although I wish Micro$oft included native support for HFS+.

Have you never heard of MacDrive?

Who hasn't?
I hate MacDrive though.

How come? I love it! It's fast and it does exactly what it's supposed to do.

MacDrive is useful but also really annoying.

My main beef with it is that disabling MacDrive itself doesn't disable the system tray notifications. I don't need to be reminded on every friggin boot-up why I can't see my HFS partitions.

And it's annoying to have to reboot whenever I change the settings.

I've never had any problems with MacDrive with my HFS+ partitions. It mounts them without any problems on every Windows boot.

Great news

The problem with MacDrive is it cost money free is always better

get bootcamp.msi/bootcamp64.msi pkg from snow leopard dvd (mounted in windz), install it and disable bootcamp in autostart list (using msconfig).

it works fine, read only.

Read only? looks like i am going to be keeping MacDrive.

No, you misunderstand. It's working fine for me too, when I want it to work.

I don't want my HFS partitions/drives to be mounted all the time, so I keep MacDrive disabled and only enable it when I need it.

The problem is that on every single boot I get a popup that says MacDrive is disabled and a warning icon in the system tray (at least you can opt to hide the icon).

I think a disabled program should shut up and stay disabled. I disabled it myself, and I don't need it to tell me that I've disabled it.

Then use msconfig to disable the process.

Why wouldn't you want it to mount it on every boot? It's not hurting anything...

Why read-only? Anyway to enable write?
I guess I'll use NTFS as my Share partition when OS X 10.6 is released.

MacDrive Eats partition tables. newer versions may be better but I´ll never trust it.

MacDrive both takes up precious RESOURCES and costs money, and it bothers you all the time. A driver that works seamlessly like your NTFS driver, who wouldn't want that? Seriously? And honestly, I wouldnt want my Windows to be able to write to my HFS+ drives incase it gets virus infected.

I've been using it for more than a year and love it. Its never "bothered" me and its never failed me either. It doesn't slow anything else down, either.

As someone who works with video and graphics using both NTFS and HFS partitions, sometimes on the same project, this would be great. Even if it's read only. It's a pain to reboot to Windows, realize you forgot to copy something to your Windows work drive, and have to reboot or run HFS Explorer. I don't trust MacDrive as a previous user said it eats partition tables - I've heard that before - it's a no-no for handling valuable project files. I have tried it, though, and it wouldn't see all of my partitions for some reason, so it was useless anyways.

Can confirm. Lost TWICE my mounted HD due to system crash/power failure.
And reconstructing the partition table isn't a relaxing hobby.

I've turned Windows and OS X off manually by holding down the power button and it never ruined my HFS+ partition...



I don't know. I guess I'm just one of the lucky ones?

For me Mac Drive sucks, I used the lastest version a few moths ago and when I was trying to move a large file from NTFS to HFS+ it crashed windows and guess what the HFS+ partition was damaged, even with check disk didn't work I had to reformat that partition.

I'm using Windows 7 RTM and I'm having a huge problem on a Mac Pro with several HDD's and a SSD, and It's repeatedly crashing to blue screen when accessing the Mac HFS Drives via Apples built in driver (bootcamp 3.0). Anyone knows why or a work around let me know at blue@maniac66.idps.co.uk

I tried installing MacDrive 8 also but that resulted in a complete OS failure to boot, maybe conflicting with Apples HFS Driver, it's annoying as hell!

I have been using NTFS 3g and MAC fuse to write to my NTFS drives with no issues. Both are open source.

Dora

I use a program called HFS Explorer. Fast, Free, but based on Java, so you need that to run it. You might like it.
http://hem.bredband.net/catacombae/hfsx.html

Same goes with Paragon for Ntfs on the osx side. Corrupted a 600 GB ntfs partition for me. THANKFULLY I could recover it. One should use these 3d party tools with care.