Since at the time of this writing Mediafour’s MacDrive still doesn’t work with Windows 7 I thought it’s a good idea to let you know that you can access Mac-formatted hard drives via a free utility called HFSExplorer.
It’s not as easy to use as MacDrive but it’s free and it gets the job done. You will be able to move files from your Mac formatted drive over to your Windows machine but probably won’t be able to work with it like you would with MacDrive, ie use, for example, Premiere Pro to access the drive directly.
STEPS
1) Install HFS Explorer (download it here)
2) Once installed, open up HFS Explorer, go to FILE > Load File System from Device
3) From the pop up select Autodetect, or select the device (= harddrive) yourself.
4) It should open up a window of your Mac formatted drive now.
5) Select the folder(s) you want to copy and click Extract
6) Select the folder on your Windows machine you want the files copied to
If it asks you if you want to follow symbolic links click select No
HFS Explorer should now copy your files to your Windows machine. Make sure you close our HFS Explorer before removing the external hard drive.
Hope this helps.
Tags: apple, copy files, file systems, hfs, hfsexplorer, mac os, macdrive, microsoft, windows, windows7
[...] there is a big difference between HFS Explorer and MacDrive. The former is a very basic utility that lets you open up HFS formatted hard drives [...]
[...] there is a big difference between HFS Explorer and MacDrive. The former is a very basic utility that lets you open up HFS formatted hard drives [...]