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Hi all,
I'm rather new to mac OS and am hoping someone could help me out with this problem.
I've a windows partition (C:) running Vista Ultimate. In it, I had created 'logical drive' which contains a FAT32 (D:)and a NTFS (E:)partition. I'm thinking of using this 'D:' drive to share data between vista and Mac OS. However, when I boot up into Mac OS, both d: and e: drives are not showing (c: showing thought). I went into Terminal and use the 'diskutil list' command, it doesn't show me my D: and E: partition.
Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Simon

MacDrive7 allows 32-bit Windows to access r/w to HFS+.
There is a Google kit for NTFS.
I had terrible performance and luck with Paragon Software's NTFS for Mac OS X 6.0 ($30) and would not recommend it.
If you are willing to start over, clone your Vista. Maybe WinClone or Norton Ghost.
Reformat your internal drive with Disk Utility after backing up (Apple Disk Utility Restore).
Don't use BootCamp and create Vista NTFS, FAT32 and Mac OS X. Don't install or restore OS X until AFTER you have Vista installed.
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