can i have mac and windows on 2 seperate drives but share 1 drive

i have 3 hard drives, 2 ssd's and 1 hard drive, i am running windows 10 on one ssd, and i will add os x yosemite to the second ssd, the hard drive is a 3 tb data drive, can mac and windows share that drive

Yes and No. If you format your data drive as exFat both OS can access (read and write) to the drive.
If you format as NTFS windows will have full access but OSX will read be read only on the drive.
Solution install Tuxera NTFS on the OSX to have full access.

Another option, format the driveOSX Journalled and Mac will use it as a normal drive, but on windows you need to install Macdrive to have access to it. I use the last method.
Hope this helps.
Mcity

With the third method can you write to the drive as well, (fraps recordings)

Another two options:

• Format the HDD as HFS+ and run MacDrive on windows. Not free but works very well (I have it myself).

• Format the HDD as NTFS and follow these instructions. Free, but is going to have to be redone if you change the drive name or want to add another NTFS drive.

You could also create 2 partitions on the drive, on for each OS. You wouls share the drive but not the data

I need (want) to be able to both read and write in both OS X and windows on the same drive, how do I do that without data corruption, also I don't want exFat (I think, like the format which doesn't allow over 4GB file sizes).

exFAT supports file sizes much larger than 4GB but does not offer any type of transaction safety for your data. You need to do one of the following options if you don't want to use exFAT:

spmcveigh said:

• Format the HDD as HFS+ and run MacDrive on windows. Not free but works very well (I have it myself).

• Format the HDD as NTFS and follow these instructions. Free, but is going to have to be redone if you change the drive name or want to add another NTFS drive.

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Giving I'm lazy, I haven't installed OS X yet via clover, so I can't format the drive to something not NTFS. Also as I need quick write speeds, (I am recording stuff via Shadow Play (Fraps takes up too many frames)) so as to keep my frames up, would it be quicker to use MacDrive or to record straight to NTFS. Also if writing straight to NTFS do you recommend keeping my games and recording on the same partition or having them seperate.

N/B the HD I,m talking about is an internal one, not external so I dont know how to the second method without crashing the computer. Also this drive doesn't have OS X or windows installed.