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According to reports from the MacRumors site, the version of Boot Camp is included with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard will include drivers for Windows that will allow access to HFS +.

Boot Camp lets you install Windows and other operating systems on a secondary partition of your Mac OS X, and is indeed provided with a set of drivers that allow you to make best use of Windows on the Mac peripherals

But so far no direct access from Windows, the Mac OS partition of X (if not solutions using third party software), but it seems that from now on will be possible.

There is no fear but for the security of data on partitions Mac: it seems the media is read-only and will not, from Windows, the modification of files in HFS +. Should only allow access to your data (music, pictures, etc …), even from Windows (just as happens now with NTFS partitions of Windows, accessible directly from Mac OS X-only reading).

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For those who do not know what the HFS + filesystem is Mac OS X uses to format your partitions, and is usually used by all the disks that are managed only with Apple computers. It is a system with a performance and efficiency superior to FAT32 in Windows, but with the drawback that the Microsoft operating systems can not read it.

Until now, to solve this problem we had to install Windows applications such as MacDrive, but it appears that Snow Leopard will no longer be needed. It has been discovered in the Boot Camp tool of the last build of Mac OS X 10.6 a number of drivers that allow Windows to read from the system partition HFS +.

In conclusion, we will not have to resort to any third party software to access our files from the Mac OS partition of Windows we’ve done with Boot Camp on our computers (in the case that we have made, of course) facilitate the work.

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