SSD+HDD Bootcamp Configuration

[BoBo1982]

Hello everyone,
I have a MacBook Pro Mid 2012 with an SSD and the original HDD in the optical bay.
i wanna install a Boot camp partition on my SSD and maintain the HDD as storage data shared between the OS. Now I'm wondering if when i'm running Windows i still see the HDD and i still read/write on it.
Are there any way to set it up, in negative case?
Can someone help me, please?
Thanks
Luca

 

[scsyc]

Hi,
If your internal HDD is formated in HFS format (which is MacOS default), I don't think windows will be able to mount it. You should format this disk relying on a format compatible with both MacOS and Windows (e.g. exFAT). Before proceeding, you should back up the HDD as formatting will erase it.
I am not sure then if Windows will be able to see it, but if you don't format the HDD to a format compatible with Windows, there will be no chance it could work.