File system (NTFS, FAT32 and HFS Plus) questions backup and share

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I have some questions regarding different file system (NTFS, FAT and HFS Plus) backup and share between them.

I need to have windows 7 installed in bootcamp, because of some not osx ready software.
I also need to share alot of files between windows systems that probably use NTFS to OS X and vice versa.

1. Should I install Windows 7 in Bootcamp with FAT32 (because I understand it can be read and written to by OS X) ? What are the options? What is the backside with having FAT32? Are there any 3party programs to use to read and write this file system?

2. How do I write to memory sticks from OS X that is formated in NTFS (lots of work memory sticks are in this file system) ?

And the last side question..
3. When I install windows 7 its on another partition from book camp.. (NTFS or FAT32).
On OS X I will use Carbon Copy Cloner to make a image of the disk. How should I go about to make a image of the windows 7 file system on the mac? Can I use the same program or do I need another software like acronis? How do you guys do this?

Thanks for any comments or suggestions. File systems is not my cup of tea.
 
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I think you are right about Win 7 and NTFS mrplow. Additionally a potential downside of FAT 32 would be the 4 GB file size limit on each file.

There is a procedure for creating a drive that has HFS+, NTFS, and FAT 32 partitions but last time I looked it was something of a pain. much easier to get the Paragon software.
 
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Also most of my files will lay on the OS X disk. How is the best way to access them from Windows 7 ?
 

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Give tWinclone a try. It says it will clone Win 7.

I think some sites still have an older version listed. It had issues with Lion. I've run the new version a few times with no issues. Have not tried cloning Win 7 yet. Still running XP.
 

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