accessing apple file system windows

[f1sh3r]

i have in my possession a hard drive from an older macbook. i am trying to get data off of it from a windows pc.

it is showing up in disk management as uninitialized and unallocated. im guessing this has to do with file systems.

any help?

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[Megatomic]

yes, the file system is different, windows doesn't recognize it.

 

[MrTransistorm]

Try Macdrive.

 

[TheStu]

Get MacDrive, install, mount drive, Victory

 

[TMoney468]

I have Macdrive and it works extremely well.

 

[Nothinman]

Or you can try a Linux LiveCD for free, they read HFS and HFS+ just fine.

 

[f1sh3r]

the only thing i had on me was a puppy linux cd, tried it out and got nothing. the laptop had coffee spilled on it, so that may have played a part in it.

ill have to start carrying a wider array of linux distros in my coat.

macdrive does look good, if i run into more of these instances i may invest in it. thanks fellas.

 

[Nothinman]

Puppy's one of the distros that tries to stay extremely small so I wouldn't be surprised to see them pull out support for odd filesystems like HFS+ but you might also just have to mount the drive manually. i.e. 'modprobe hfsplus' and 'mount -t hfsplus /dev/whatever /mnt/tmp'

 

[bearxor]

HFS Explorer:
http://hem.bredband.net/catacombae/hfsx.html

Unlike MacDrive, it's free. It will not, however, write. It's read-only.