Mac Drive problems in Windows XP

revolutionrock · 27 Jun 2009 at 12:59

I have recently installed XP, after using Leopard for a while. Now, I have just bought Mac Drive so that I could access my data from Leopard on XP, and whilst it is picking up my actual drive were Leopard is stored, it is not letting me acess my hard drive were my data/media is on.

When I click on them it states they are not accessible, but in Mac they are fine?

electric ant · 27 Jun 2009 at 13:11

Not sure why MacDrive isnt working, but you could try HFSExplorer to see if that reads your files?

revolutionrock · 27 Jun 2009 at 13:19

electric ant said:
Not sure why MacDrive isnt working, but you could try HFSExplorer to see if that reads your files?

I'll give it a go. Thanks.

Edit; That seems to be working. What can I do from here with that? In regards to actually being able to see the drives, and use the files upon them?

electric ant · 27 Jun 2009 at 13:40

revolutionrock said:
I'll give it a go. Thanks.

Edit; That seems to be working. What can I do from here with that? In regards to actually being able to see the drives, and use the files upon them?

What are you trying to do exactly? HFS Explorer lets you read files on HFS+ drives, but not write to them.
Mac Drive should have let you write to them but youve mentioned its not working.

miniyazz · 27 Jun 2009 at 13:56

Mac uses a different filesystem to PCs. Copy files off the disk using HFSExplorer, format in NTFS, copy files back, XP can read NTFS. Or if you still use Macs, maybe see if there's a file system both can use - FAT32 maybe? Not sure.

revolutionrock · 27 Jun 2009 at 14:00

I just need to get my music of the drive into my iTunes on XP, for now. Ill deal with my films, at a later date.