I cant access my mac partition in windows 8 Bootcamp

I have a 2012 MacBook Pro with windows 8 installed in Bootcamp 5. I can not access my mac partition. The apple hfs drivers are installed from bootcamp tools. I can not mount the mac partition via disk utility. option grayed out
I dont need to write to the partition so paying for 3rd party software is out of the question
I was filevult encrypted but I disabled it and let it decrypt itself (I now use encrypted disk images)
any ideas?

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