Little update...
Plugged in my iPod (Classic 6G) just now, which I forgot is formatted as HFS+ and has the Mac version of the firmware on it.
Lo and behold, I can access it and see files inside, and I think it's MacDrive which is enabling me to do so (see screenshot attached -- 'MacDrive' tab in Properties).
So this makes me think MacDrive can read the drives, it's just not mounting them or something along those lines. Anyone know a bit more about Windows' attitudes to drives know anything which might help?
I'm gonna go look around at drive mounting in Windows, perhaps I can solve this myself.
EDIT: Ok, first of all, tried updating MacDrive from 7.0.10 or whatever to 7.0.26 or so. Broke MacDrive. Reinstalled original.
Found a post on another Win7 forum about someone having success with MacDrive by simply assigning a drive letter (in Paragon). So I tried that, but Paragon doesn't seem to want to assign a letter to it. Every time I try and apply, then close the window, it goes back to having no letter. To make things worse, it doesn't recognise it's not actually being used, so once I use a letter, it isn't available again. I've now run out of letters (I was curious as to what would happen if I used them all up. The list is empty. How boring), but Explorer shows all the free drive letters just as it should do.
I'll try PMing/emailing the guy who posted on the other forum.
EDIT2: Ok, done.
SOLVED.
With a bit of help from a post on the forums over at
MacRumours, I downloaded a program which is actually meant to help managing Ext2 partitions, but it works great for HFSJ too.
1. Download & Install '
Ext2fsd 0.42'
2. Assign drive letters.
3. Reboot.
Works perfectly and better than most other methods I found, as it's a permanant solution -- that is, you don't need to reassign letters on every boot.
Another final note: MacDrive 7.2.25 works fine on build 7100. It's just 7.2.26 which won't start.