Disadvantages of using NTFS hard drive & a Mac OSX Extended Journaled?

[Imola Ghost]

I'm new to mac's and was wondering what the drawbacks of having Windows 7 Pro installed on my MBP using Bootcamp using the NTFS formatted hard drive.

If I remember reading correctly I can't transfer files or even read one the hard drive on either, correct?

If so, is there a better more seamless way of having Windows 7 installed on a Mac? I don't need Windows for much other than a few programs that will NEVER be on a Mac. The only thing I can see where I would need to be able to read & write to a FAT32 external usb hard drive which I store a lot of music.

 

[MacDawg]

Check out the various file systems here: MR Guide: File Systems

NTFS-3G will allow you to read/write NTFS from OSX (free)

MacDrive will allow you to read/write HFS+ from Windows ($50)

You can always run Windows virtualized with Parallels or VMware Fusion (or even VirtualBox)

 

[Imola Ghost]

Oh, cool thanks!

Do these need to be formatted "BEFORE" I install, I'm pretty sure this is correct but I needed to ask.