File sharing between Lion and Windows 7

Hi all
I am relatively new to Mac and have a recently purchased a MacBook Pro with Lion OS.
I have come from a Windows background my query regards cross sharing files between the two systems.
I have an external hard drive which is formated to Fat32 and when I transfer files from the Mac to it, it appears to inflate the actual size.
Is there a way to format it to work well with both systems
Is there any software available to manage files and stop it inflating?
Advice would be much appreciated, yes I do have to use both systems.
Kind regards
Michael

Well, What I would sugest is trying out the Paragon NTFS Drivers for MacOS, and also trying out the Paragon HFS+ drivers for Windows. I have purchased both of these drivers and have found them to be quite stable and good. The combination allows you to store some files on your Mac partition and still access them from Windows, as well as storing some files on your WIndows partitiona and stil accessing them from MacOS. I have done this so that my Thunderbird mail files (abotu 14-15GB) are stored on my Mac Partition, and my FireFox profile, and my digital photos are stored on my WIndows partition. I can fully access any fles from ether OS so that is not a problem. I also keep some extrnal drives around, mostly formatted NTFS for sharing data with my wife and other users, but I do keep a few formatted HFS+ as a few apps really work better when using native Mac formats..

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