accessing windows files from mac

[landis]

is their a way to partition boot camp and have all the files accessible from both osx and windows. each uses a different formatting but i thought that their was a way to do it?
thnx

 

[mad jew]

Make a third partition using FAT32 formatting. That's possibly the easiest solution.

 

[landis]

what does this fat32 partition do?

 

[M@lew]

It's just a format that you can read and write from both Mac and Windows.

 

[landis]

i know that vista cannot be installed on a fat32 drive but can it read one.

is mac drive a good option, what about a program for mac that allows to read NTFS files.

 

[mad jew]

MacDrive is a good alternative, but the FAT32 partition is free. The idea behind having a FAT32 partition is that almost all operating systems can read and write with it, including OSX and Vista.