Can't see hard drive contents from an apple laptop when placed in a Pc? taken out of a NAS drive!

[truewraith]

hi,

trying to help a mate who's got an apple laptop with his NAS drives, but when i take out his drives and slave em to my pc i cant see the contents at and the drive won't show up in my computer only in computer management and only gives me an option to delete volume which i don't want to do or delete anything till i can see the contents to sort, is there anyway round this please anyone.


also, does Netgear nas use a pc program/app to have better view of it or spects/stats of the driives?

thanks very much for any help

 

[truewraith]

sorry yeah they came out of a nas drive that was connected to a apple laptop and i think he said apple auto setup up the drives file system etc, i know next to nothing about apple products

 

[truewraith]

They're probably using the Ext2/Ext3 file system. You could boot a live Linux environment which should be able to read them or install a Ext2/Ext3 reader on Windows. Google 'Ext2/Ext3 Windows Reader'

thanks very much i will try that.