Accessing files on the Mac volume from XP

[larionx]

Hi,
Could anyone please, help?
I have installed XP on my iMac, and I can access files form Mac on my installd XP volume, but HOW can I access my files located on the Mac volume from XP?

Thanks.

 

[Fleetwood Mac]

You can, but its such a pain. There's a program called MacDrive, but it's been known to destroy peoples OS X parititions. Meaning, they have to do a resinstall of OS X... yadah yadah yahda. Anyways, I just save all my music, photos, documents, ect, on an external drive so they can be accessed by both operating systems. Much more efficient than reinstalling OS's every couple days.

EDIT: If you are interested in MacDrive, heres the link;
http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive6/

However, for the price, $50, you could probably get a new/used external USB drive.

 

[yellow]

Hi,
Could anyone please, help?
I have installed XP on my iMac, and I can access files form Mac on my installd XP volume, but HOW can I access my files located on the Mac volume from XP?

Thanks.

The problem is, Windows has no notion of HFS+, and therefore cannot see/read/write to your Mac partition. As noted by iDuck the solution typically is MacDrive. I am unaware of the problems of nuking the HFS+ partition. That's no something I've ever heard about. Most often people use MacDrive with external FW/USB HD's that are HFS+ formatted. Perhaps the difference is that MacDrive nukes the boot map. No idea.

 

[apunkrockmonk]

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