Reading/writing to Mac OS HFS+ on Windows

Misiowiec · 18 Feb 2012 at 14:31

As the title suggests, is there a driver that allows reading and writing to a Mac OS HFS+ external drive in Windows? I have a PC and a Mac, and I really can't believe how incompatible the two are in this day and age. Both have the latest OS versions installed, and yet I cannot r/w NTFS drives in MacOS X, and HFS+ drives in Windows 7.

Uncle Google has been of no help, and from what I can see there's only MacDrive 9 and Paragon HFS+. Both a paid-for apps.

Is there any easy way to get around this? Surely someone has managed to extract the BootCamp drivers...?

Any suggestions are much appreciated

kiel367 · 18 Feb 2012 at 14:53

macdrive software will let you do this, how you choose to "acquire this" is up to you

lokkers · 19 Feb 2012 at 10:40

If its an external drive, format it to exFAT. Both Windows and OSX can read/write to this natively. Bit of a pain, but that's what I've done.

Sin_Chase · 19 Feb 2012 at 11:32

lokkers said:
If its an external drive, format it to exFAT. Both Windows and OSX can read/write to this natively. Bit of a pain, but that's what I've done.

This.

fat32format will format a large drive for you in this format when Windows will not.