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Opening a mac external drive on a PC

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Booshanky

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Is there any free program anyone knows that can do this? I've got a ton of photos and other files on an external drive that was used with a mac, and I need to transfer those files to my windows XP machine.

Thanks
 
Most external drives get formatted in fat32 by default.. and nowadays Mac OS can read and write to that drive...

However if it has been formated to hfs or hfs+ your not going to be able to read it directly into Windows, obviously.


Linux has limited support for HFS/HFS+ file systems and good support for fat32. So if you have a fat32 partition on your harddrive you could possibly boot up with a knoppix cdrom and copy the information over that way. Although I don't know if knoppix supports hfs partitions out of the box.


Otherwise the best bet is to get your old mac and transfer the stuff over the network using a file share from your Windows box.

Those are the options that I can think of now..
 
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