Hard Drive Access from within Windows & Snow Leopard

[grafikkid]

I'm running Windows 7 and Snow Leopard, each on their own hard drive. I can access my Windows hard drive from within Snow Leopard, but I can't access my Snow Leopard hard drive from within Windows.

 

Any way for Windows 7 to read OS X formatted hard drives?

[an1r0n]

I'm running Windows 7 and Snow Leopard, each on their own hard drive. I can access my Windows hard drive from within Snow Leopard, but I can't access my Snow Leopard hard drive from within Windows.

 

Any way for Windows 7 to read OS X formatted hard drives?

 

Try MacDrive... go here

 

I'm using it, it works pretty well...

 

Cheers

[srs5694]

IMHO, it's best not to directly access the boot partition of one OS from another. Cross-OS filesystem drivers are often just a bit flakey, so it's best not to risk your data in this way. Instead, I prefer to set up a shared-data partition using a lowest-common-denominator filesystem. This is typically FAT, although FAT is becoming unworkable for some applications (big video files, for instance) because of its file-size and other limitations. I've been experimenting with NTFS for this purpose recently, using NTFS-3g under OS X. Whatever filesystem you use, you can then dump shared files in the shared-file partition and leave the OS boot partition and OS-specific data files untouched except under the "right" OS.

 

Edit: I have no experience with MacDrive. My comment about cross-OS filesystem drivers is a generic comment, not a specific comment on MacDrive.