FAT32 / HFS+ / MacDrive

**This was initially posted in the iMovie forum, but since history has proven the responses and views to be far more frequent in here, I am reposting
I recently purchased an external hard drive which came formatted as FAT32. Due to FAT32's file size limitation of 4GB I had to convert to HFS+ which cannot be seen by a Windows machine (as far as I am told).
I need to have my external drive be both Mac and Windows Read/Write just as it would have been in FAT32. One suggestion was to install MacDrive on the Windows PC. While this seems like a viable solution, the software is $50 and would only work on the Windows machine that it was installed on. While I have no problem paying the $50, it would destroy the option of using my drive on any Windows machine other than my own.
Is there an alternate OS format or an alternative to MacDrive that would accomplish Mac/Windows compatibility while overcoming the 4GB file size limitation? Thanks in advance.

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