Shared NTFS Drive - problems with read and write from Windows Side

Are people saving things to the same drive as the OS to make it work?

Here is my setup:

Parallels 8
OSX 10.7.5
Windows 8

256 GB SSD as the primary OS drive. 750 GB NTFS formatted drive in second bay as a data drive where all simpl stuff is stored. Should that be formatted as a different file system to make things behave properly? It gets mounted as a mapped network share when running on the Win side.

 

If this is an USB drive connect directly to Windows via the USB menu. OSX cannot write to NTFS and as a mapped (network) drive, the host, OS X, is the one doing the writing. The other possibility is to format it as HFS+ so OS X can write on it, but it won't be writable when connected directly to (a) Windows (machine).

The third option, writable on both platforms is exFAT, but doesn't have journaling.

 

The drive is internal, not USB, thanks.

 

Than the other options apply.
You can try creating a new drive in the VM configuration and assigning it as a bootcamp drive.

My choice would be to format it as HFS+.