Mac Disk Reader For Windows

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Thank you for posting the query on Microsoft Community. I am glad to assist you on this.

Unfortunately there is no such application in Windows to read MAC files on an external hard drive. However, I would suggest you to find any third party application using your favorite search engine and see if it helps.

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Thanks for the prompt reply but I can understand your reason for providing such a 'safe' reply. I continued to search and I'vre run into a program called Paragon HFS.. still haven't tried it yet.. will post results as soon as I can.

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We suggest you to try the software and reply with the results.

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So the Paragon software was a waste of $20 bucks and it resolved nothing. RossmanRepairGroup.com repaired my MacBook Pro which I am using right now.. the ? remains.. How can i transfer my files from mac to PC? I borrowed my girlfriend's PC and I searched the net and I was able to download a program called Fat32Formatter.. very simple file you just unzip and run. it doesn't even install anything on your computer. The format of the external hard drive took 30 hours.. BUT.. I now have 1 TB of Fat32!! So it was well worth the wait.. just leave it running until it is done. I have transferred all my music, pics, etc to my external drive from the mac and i was able to access and USE those same files on my girl's PC (which is Windows 8 btw) ... In summary: I was never ab;e to get the PC to read from a Mac format HFS drive. I needed both the Mac and a PC to get the job done. Just get a hard drive formatted as FAT32 and you can plug it into a Mac, get your files and plug it into a PC.. and you're done. The tough step here is finding the Fat32Formatter that will format the whole drive THIS IS WHAT I USED: http://tokiwa.qee.jp/EN/Fat32Formatter/ NOTE: This program only works on Windows/PC Good Luck everyone! #F*CKAPPLE

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I don't get it. If you format the external drive, wouldn't you lose all the files in it?

Anyway, for anyone who is having the same issue, I was searching for this same issue (reading files in a Mac formatted drive from Windows 10) and found HFSExplorer.

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Have not tried it yet, but description says it can read only (the files in you Mac formatted external hard drive).

It only lets you fill out a form for printing. Adoby reader for mac.

This way, although not being able to edit or write, you can at least copy the files to Windows.

Just not sure about files inside Time Machine backups..

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Thank you so much. I had the same issue, and with Time Machine backup files. HFSExplorer did the trick. Then I could extract all my Iphoto pictures and Itunes music to my new Windows computer without a problem.

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This is no wonder, that VMware keeps on gaining popularity among office environments. A dedicated virtual machine file system (VMFS) operates as both: a file system and a volume manager. ESX and ESXi Server file-locking mechanism, also known as SCSI reservation, preserves the integrity of data contained on a volume. As soon as everything is based on supervisor-based virtual environments such as ESXi Server, a question of current importance suddenly pops up: is it possible to to get an access to VMware formatted file systems from other popular operating systems, without installing EXSi software.

A problem emerges when you face a rapid “system down” situation, and the urgency of accessing VMFS data is crucial. Unfortunately, if you deal with more than one VMware server environment, you won't be able to remap the logical unit number (LUN) into another VMware system really fast.

So the most reasonable solution would be to access the desirable data via Open Source VMFS driver. This VMFS Java application allows the users to access files and folders on partitions formatted with the VMFS, when there are only non-VMware hosts around. A relative weakness of this driver that should be taken in consideration is that it works well only when the VM disks are not damaged. If a VM disc is corrupted or you have to deal with deleted files it would be more appropriate to use VMFS Recovery. It recovers VMDK images created in all versions of ESX Server or VMware from healthy and corrupted VMFS disks, VMFS drives on faulty RAID arrays and inaccessible hard drives, recovers data bypassing Windows access restrictions.

The VMFS driver is supplied with command line interface (CLI) tools to mount and analyze VMFS volumes. It was tested on Linux and Windows based hosts, and is supposed to work on any platform supporting Java.

Prerequisites

For accessing VMFS under Windows you are to have Java 6 Runtime Environment installed on your computer, as soon as all the tests, concerning this issue, were performed on it. To make sure that everything is installed correctly, execute “java-version” on the command line.

Download the latest version of fvmfs.jar distribution, and unzip the file into a desired location, for example C:Data Store

How to Run

Before you start, you have to make sure what physical drive number Windows has assigned to the VMWare drive, using Windows Disk Management. Run through the following steps: Computer Management - Storage - Disk Management to find a disk titled as “Unknown Partition” and memorize its number. You'll need the disk number to mount it later.

Run a Command Line as administrator.

Test the VMFS driver by launching the following commands:

Assuming that your operating system assigned number 3 to a target VMWare drive, check if you can get an access to it by executing:

To hook the VMFS driver to the target drive type:

If everything goes just right and the VMFS volume that you are trying to access is not damaged so that the driver can read it, a small web server will be launched to offer you both: WEBDAV access and a regular http access via browser to the data on the disc.

Now you can mount the drive either through a webdav (check if the webclient service is running) or by launching your web browser and typing:

The desired VMFS drive is successfully mounted, its content is available in read only mode.

Basically this driver is the first open solution driver to access VMFS formatted volumes from any Linux, Windows or OS-X operating system (actually from any OS that allows running Java and mounting a volume)

Mounting on Linux

On Linux, the volume can be mounted using the davfs2 driver as follows:

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When asked for the username, skip, pressing ENTER, as soon as no authentication required. The volume is now accessible under the given mount point (/mount/vmfs in the above example).

Mounting on MAC OS X

For Mac OSX Users: everything works pretty similar to Linux, just use the 'rdisk', e.g. /dev/rdisk4s1. If you plug in the disk you'll see it in 'Disk Utility'. If a laptop is used, you can get a USB->SATA converter and it works just fine.

Please, bear in mind, that Open Source VMFS driver provides access to the healthy VMFS partitions and won't work with seriously damaged drives.

Download free VMFS driver, to solve more serious problems use Diskinternals VMFS Recovery tool.