Windows 7 is now able to write on the Mac partition of the hard drive. The software is actually just a driver once it's installed, there's nothing else for you to do. I tried the new software out on my MacBook Pro that runs both Mac OS 10.6 and Windows 7 and it worked much like Paragon claims. It also adds modern hard-drive support to older Windows, including the ability to mount HFS+ volumes from GPT disks under Windows XP. The software is also designed to work with all types of hard-drive connections, including USB, FireWire, eSATA, SATA, and IDE. Paragon also says this is currently the only solution on the market that provides full read-write access to HFS+/HFSX partitions on any type of disk configurations, inducing APM, GPT and MBR, and for the largest selection of Windows revisions, including both the 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows XP, Vista, 2003 or 2008 Server, and Windows 7.
The company claims that this version is the industry's fastest two-way solution, capable of transferring files between Windows and Mac OS X at a rate higher than native HFS file-system performance.
Paragon announced Thursday the latest version of this software, called Paragon HFS+ for Windows 8. However, if you want the ability to have full read-write access to a Mac partition from Windows, you'd need another utility, such as HFS+ for Windows from Paragon. You can also install and use only Windows on the Mac hardware.
You then have the option of booting the computer in either Mac OS or Windows. Version 3 of Boot Camp, which comes with Snow Leopard, makes it even better by offering Windows the ability to read a Mac partition, which is formatted in HFS+ or HFSX file system.īoot Camp, by the way, is a bundle of software drivers and utilities that allow you to install the Windows operating system on an Intel-based Mac. Ever since Apple started using Intel processors, the line between Macs and PCs has been blurred as Mac users have the option to combine the Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows in one machine with help from Apple's Boot Camp.
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