Installed the program and it works a treat. This sounded like the type of program I was after and it is also open-source (unlike MacDrive) which was great. OS Extended) and HFSX (Mac OS Extended with case sensitive file names). It can read the file systems HFS (Mac OS Standard), HFS+ (Mac HFSExplorer is an application that can read Mac-formatted hard disks andĭisk images. This was really annoying because each thread I read online reported that it worked great. I installed it and tried it out but it didn't seem to want to view my hard drive. The main benefits of not using FAT32 is that you're not limited to the 2.2GB file size limit and NTFS was just not an option at the time.Īfter doing some hunting, I found a piece of software from MediaFour called MacDrive. I only had a Mac when I started adding stuff to my hard drive and to reformat it back to a FAT32 partition and re-add all my stuff again was not something I was prepared to do (if I could help it). Windows is the more flexible allowing you to format your external drives as FAT32 or NTFS and OS X prefers you to use either FAT32, Mac OS or Mac OS Extended (Journaled) which is what one of my hard drives was. If you are both a Windows and Mac OS X user, you will already know the differences between the two and the differing options available for formatting external hard drives. Reading A Mac-Formatted Hard Drive On Windows 7 3 minute read 00000 views
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