Accessing mac partition within vista

How can I access my Mac partition when I'm booted into Vista? I am able to access my Vista partition when booted into Mac OS, but not the other way around? I've installed iTunes in both partitions and would like to access my music in the Mac partition. How can I do that? I'd also like to transfer my bookmarks to the Vista partition as well. Boot Camp works great on my system but I would like to access my Mac media files when booted into Vista.

UCorvet wrote:
Thanks hatter. I just downloaded HFSExplore. It's simple, easy to use and saves 50 bucks (MacDrive7).
It's also safer, being read only.
Writing to the HFS+ volume from Windows can prove disastrous if not done properly

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Hi,
usually you hold down the Alt/Option-key at startup of your Mac to get the Boot Selection screen.
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Once in OSX you might wanna go to System Preferences - Startup Volume and set your OSX to be the default.
If that's not working you should boot from your OSX Install DVD (holding down the C-key at startup) and use Disk Utility from it to verify/repair your harddisk/OSX.
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Stefan

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where you able to solve this problem? I'm now facing a similar issue.

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setup a 30GB partition on an external drive, along with a partition of 150% the size of your Mac OS X volume -- or larger.
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I have Windows 7 Pro on Boot Camp, which is also on a server 2003 domain. When the windows network users log in, they can access the Mac Partition. How do I prevent this from happening?
I know it is read only, but I prefer to have them access only the Windows partition when logged into Windows, and only have them access the Mac partition, when they are logged into Snow Leopard.
Thank you!

Rename AppleHFS.sys and AppleMNT.sys
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Here you go
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 1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
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 AFC82671-CBAA-4338-BAEC-7D272EC755B1
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Signature: 0xAA55
 Starting Ending
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1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AC 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 409640 - 1270110576] <Unknown ID>
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [1270520216 - 1269536] Darwin Boot
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gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 1465149167
 start size index contents
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 2 32 Pri GPT table
 34 6
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JDFitch wrote:
Ok Great,
Will installing Boot Camp drivers allow me to both read and write to the OS X Volume from windows?
This is important as if it will it means i can make the windows partition a lot smaller and keep all my files on the OS X partition which would be preferable.
Jon
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I am gonna buy a Macbook pro and I would like to install Windows 7 also.
In boot camp, partitioning the hard drive for windows is just for Windows and its software installation or that restricts the hard disk size windows OS can access?
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Similarly, as was already mentioned, MacOS provides read-only access to your NTFS partition for Windows, and you can download free third party drivers to get full read/write access to that partition.
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