On OSX in order to access Windows NTFS USB drives, this free tool NTFS-FREE works for me pretty well.
- 10.6.8
- 10.7.1
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Download the package suitable for your OSX version and install it. This will require a reboot.
Update 13 Oct 2013: Upgrading to Mountain Lion messed up everything. Havent found a solution yet.
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