Can OSX view Windows system files?

[Tom84]

Per the title, plugged an external HDD into my Macbook today in an attempt to copy data from it (HDD comes from a laptop which wont boot into the XP anymore)

Plugged it in via a HDD dock and while it displays the folder structure fine everything beneath that shows no files/empty folders!

I'm going to plug the HDD into a Windows machine just to check it isn't a fault with the drive but cant do that until tomorrow so in the mean time is there a reason why OSX wouldn't show the files within the folders?

Cheers

 

[Tom84]

Should work fine. The only time I've had issues is with drivers formatted with old versions of NTFS - I.e. early XP or 2k machines.

And what problems did you have? Similar to what I'm having? It's a very old Laptop so probably not FAT32

 

[Tom84]

Just so everyone knows I tried the drive on a windows 7 laptop and got the same thing, never seen a drive display the file structure but not the child objects before so I guess it's had some kind of virus that's buggered it