Snow Leopard not reading NTFS

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Published on 2009-09-14T05:07:31Z Indexed on 2010/03/29 19:23 UTC
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I just upgraded a brand new Macbook Pro that I bought with 10.5 installed to Snow Leopard.

After doing the upgrade I am trying to access NTFS partitions on my external hard drive but they are just not showing up. I went ahead and installed Windows 7 using Parallels, and I can access the NTFS partitions from within Windows, but not from Mac OS X. I know that Snow Leopard should be able to at least read NTFS drives, so what is going on here?

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