Transferring Files On Hard Drive From PC To Mac:

I have mp3s that aren't available anymore, and I still have them but they are stuck on an NTFS formatted hard drive. It is an internal hard drive not external, so I need desktops to get files off of it.
Am I right that apple computers can only read from NTFS but not write to?
Can I connect it to the extra power cable in the apple desktop, connect it to the extra port in the grey cable, set the hard drive to slave,
and would it mount in OS X so I can copy the mp3s off of it???????

Never mind, I just went ahead and connected it... It mounted onto the desktop. and now I have the MP3s!!!!!!! =] ^_^

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