Accessing windows partition from OS X?

[blitzydog]

I have files on my OS X partition I wanna transfer over, but when it says I don't have the permissions to drag and drop stuff into my Windows partition. Any thoughts?

[IanF0729]

If you formatted your Windows XP partition as NTFS then OS X cannot write to it.

The only file system that they can both write to is FAT32, which isn't recommended above a certain size...frankly, I wouldn't use it at all.

If you have an external drive, I would recommend splitting the partition and formatting a segment as FAT32 as a staging area between Windows XP and OS X.

[blitzydog]

Ah I see, I see... That's so unfortunate :(

[IanF0729]

Indeed, but it would have been more unfortunate if you used at FAT32 for XP. From what I've heard it makes the operating system more unstable.

[inxxcasinoxxout]

You can download a free trial edition of Macdrive:
http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive6/

I use it in XP to get files from my mac partition and copy them to the xp partition. Very easy to use.