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Free Mac Drive Reader For Windows
I have some external hard drives that are Mac OS Extended (Journaled) formatted. What software can you recommend for working with those drives when under Windows? Do you have any experience with this?
Simple and easy to use, MacDrive is recognized as the leader for accessing Mac disks from Windows for almost 20 years. Once you plug in your Mac disk, behind the scenes MacDrive works to seamlessly enable Windows understand HFS+ disks and allow you to read and write to the disk.
Would be best if the software is free, but it doesn't have to be.
Hope someone can help!
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- Hi Guys Need some help, i recently damaged my Apple Mac mainboard, the HDD is working,i need to read and copy the files from the Mac hdd onto my windows based PC. Windows does not read HFS file.
- In summary: I was never ab;e to get the PC to read from a Mac format HFS drive. I needed both the Mac and a PC to get the job done. Just get a hard drive formatted as FAT32 and you can plug it into a Mac, get your files and plug it into a PC. And you're done.
- In order to copy files to your laptop or PC's hard disk, select the ones you want and click the Extract button. Browse to a folder on your local hard disk (or a different external drive) and click.
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8 Answers
MarkMark
You can install Apple bootcamp drivers (no official download links but you can find it on other sites) on a non-Apple machine. This will install HFS+ (the other name for Mac OS Extended) drivers for Windows.
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For those with Windows 7, drivers can be found using Apple KB: TS3172
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SzymiSzymi
Seems like MediaFour MacDrive is the recommended one from various places. If anyone has any good and free alternatives or just other alternatives, I'd like to know about those though :)
Along with the ability to read and write to Mac disks and volumes, you can also create Mac disks for easy file transfers and backups. The built-in MacDrive Disk Manager gives you the power to partition, format, analyze and repair disks, while the newly revamped CD/DVD Creator allows you to burn Mac CDs and DVDs.
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I found the solution in here. It works just great. They are the official AppleĀ“s driver set. It works with latest format (End 2012).
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Mac Drive Reader For Pc
jonbarlojonbarlo
Have you considered going in the opposite direction?
Mac Drive Reader For Windows
NTFS on OSX
This is what i do. Any External Drive that i connect to my OSX machine that i plan to also use with Windows i make the volume an NTFS volume. osxFUSE(googlecode) will allow you to write EXT3&4,ZFS,NTFS, and basicly any Filesystem on your MAC.
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Yes I've used MacDrive and its probably the only one around that works good.
Its sometimes buggy though, last I used was up to November last year. Don't know about the latest updates.
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I've since changed all my drives back to NTFS, since Snow Leopard has (hidden) native support for writing NTFS files. (Google that - fstab ntfs mac) ;)
shrmnshrmn
I am using HVF_Explorer with a WIN32 system.HVF_Explorer does a pretty good job, and its free.
Greetings!
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