Can't access external mac hard drive in Windows

[Pardus]

Friend of mine has an extrenal 1TB Fantom green hard drive with GPT partitions, that Windows won't read. Have tried Windows 7 and Windows 8. When I connect that drive to a macbook, it reads it fine.

Seems to have been backed up with timemachine. The problem is my friend's is moving away from the macworld and wants his data/drive to be able to be read by Windows 8.

Is there any way to convert and not lose the data to some format that Windows can read. The goal is to pull the data off that drive onto a Windows NTFS drive. Then reformat the external drive as NTFS and move everything back over.

thanks

 

[TheStu]

MacDrive will let Windows read/write to the partition. On a Mac with BootCamp, Apple includes a Windows driver that will let it read/write to that drive.

There's also HFS Explorer that will let you read the drive.

 

[Childs]

Just enable SMB file sharing on the Macbook, mount the drive on the Windows machine, then copy over the data.

 

[vailr]

Some routers include a USB port, which would then allow for accessing the Mac drive over a network.

 

[Pardus]

thanks TheStu, that did the trick.