Transferring photos/videos from Mac to PC...while preserving metadata

In short, I need to move my media collection (music, movies, photos, etc) off from my macbook pro and on to my windows server (Win 7) due to hard drive space limitations. I'm afraid that if/when I transfer all of my media over to the NTFS storage drive located on my Win7 machine, I'll lose all of the metadata attached to each picture/video, you know...all the dates, times, places, etc. Will this data actually be lost? Any recommendations aside from keeping it on an HFS+ drive? For what it's worth, much of it has been taken via iPhone. Additionally, I'm finding that I'm running in to more trouble actually transferring it. Is there a good application to do this? (CCC failed out, the manual copy/paste failed too.)

Barbara-- I just found an answer on a previous thread that seems to work-- dragging the jpgs on the mac from their folder onto the desktop, and then from there on to the thumb drive.  I still get the two forks, but the main one opens.  Question: (unless you know a better way to go that doesn't create this)-- is there any reason not to delete the data fork?  It seems to open fine when it is deleted.

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