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MAC Paritioned HDD

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Imager

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Ok guys...my GF has a partitioned hdd with a mac partition on it and the other partition is for windows. She has a ton of music and files on the mac partition. What is the easiest and best way to grab the data off of it and transfer/save the files to windows?

She no longer has the mac...

Thx!
 
oynaz said:
AFAIK Ubuntu can read just about anything. Boot Ubuntu from a CD/USB drive and copy the files.
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I'm not real familiar with ubuntu and copying files...if it's just bootable, how am I copying files to windows when windows wouldn't technically be loaded yet?
 
Alright, just like how you would be getting files from the Mac partition (that almost certainly has OS X installed to) without the Mac partition being loaded, you will be doing the same with Ubuntu.

You drop the disk in and it loads Ubuntu from the disk, it is called a LiveCD. The OS runs off the disk, but you can still access all the hardware in your computer.

However, if you aren't comfortable with all that, just get MacDrive and see if it will work.
 
Imager said:
I'm not real familiar with ubuntu and copying files...if it's just bootable, how am I copying files to windows when windows wouldn't technically be loaded yet?
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You would be able to see both the Mac and Windows partitions. Just make a folder under the Windows partition and drop all of the files in there.
 
There are a few free HFS readers for Windows out there if all you're doing is transferring files from one drive to another.
 
mfenn said:
You would be able to see both the Mac and Windows partitions. Just make a folder under the Windows partition and drop all of the files in there.
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you should be able to do this. If you want you could also either

A: Make a 3rd FAT32 partition and transfer through there (assuming there are no files over 4GB 🙁)

B: Install a trial of Macdrive (not recommended... didn't work for me...)

C: Use a separate HDD formatted in FAT32.
 
Davidh373 said:
you should be able to do this. If you want you could also either

A: Make a 3rd FAT32 partition and transfer through there (assuming there are no files over 4GB 🙁)

B: Install a trial of Macdrive (not recommended... didn't work for me...)

C: Use a separate HDD formatted in FAT32.
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You shouldn't have to make a FAT32 partition. Linux can read/write to NTFS.
 
Davidh373 said:
Yeah, I get that, but does he have a linux box, or does he have to install it?
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Use a live CD. All the big distros have one, and Ubuntu would be a good choice. It's user friendly, and fairly intuitive for someone coming from a Windows background.
 
lxskllr said:
Use a live CD. All the big distros have one, and Ubuntu would be a good choice. It's user friendly, and fairly intuitive for someone coming from a Windows background.
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Thanks guys! Will prolly go with the livecd of ubuntu since one of the guys said the Macdrive didn't work for them...

Thx! Crossing my fingers!
 
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