Trying to write to NTFS drives - No Joy

I have a new iMac, purchased after my PC motherboard fried.  I salvaged the two hard drives from the PC and have connected them to the iMac via USB. I also purchased Parallels to run legacy Windows programs in a VM.
All of this works fine except for one legacy program that wants to see XP SP3.  When I set Parallels up, I installed XP off my original boot disk and it exists at SP2 level.  I have my original Windows environment on one of the hard drives, but I have been unable to access it.
My plan was to copy the folder containing my XP SP3 environment to the "C drive" used by Parallels but I have only "read" privileges on the NTFS drives.  I downloaded an NTFS driver for Mac, but have not seen a change in privileges.
I would actually like to migrate my entire PC environment to Parallels, but to do so, I must install a migration app on the "PC" which does not exist outside of the data on the drives.
So, I'm looking for help from all of you guru's out there.  Thanks in advance.
Douglas

use http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/item/ntfs-driver-for-mac-os-master-dl/
program to format read partitions as NTFS
youcan write as well

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