Maxtor OneTouch III

I have a Maxtor OneTouch III that is currently formatted for windows. I've heard that you can get NTFS for mac and then it will work? I would reformat it but I have 300gb of files on it and I have no way of backing them up. Is there a way to access the hard drive without erasing everything?

I've installed MacFuse but I can't really figure out how that helps. I plug in the hard drive and it says "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer." What should I do? I can't find a MacFuse control panel or anything.
By the way, I've tried using it with parallels... No luck.
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