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I have some external hard drives that are Mac OS Extended (Journaled) formatted. What software can you recommend for working with those drives when under Windows? Do you have any experience with this?

Would be best if the software is free, but it doesn't have to be.

Hope someone can help!

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You can install Apple bootcamp drivers (no official download links but you can find it on other sites) on a non-Apple machine. This will install HFS+ (the other name for Mac OS Extended) drivers for Windows.

For those with Windows 7, drivers can be found using Apple KB: TS3172

Der Hochstapler

Seems like MediaFour MacDrive is the recommended one from various places. If anyone has any good and free alternatives or just other alternatives, I'd like to know about those though :)

Along with the ability to read and write to Mac disks and volumes, you can also create Mac disks for easy file transfers and backups. The built-in MacDrive Disk Manager gives you the power to partition, format, analyze and repair disks, while the newly revamped CD/DVD Creator allows you to burn Mac CDs and DVDs.

SvishSvish

I found the solution in here. It works just great. They are the official Apple´s driver set. It works with latest format (End 2012).

Irfan

Have you considered going in the opposite direction?

NTFS on OSX

This is what i do. Any External Drive that i connect to my OSX machine that i plan to also use with Windows i make the volume an NTFS volume. osxFUSE(googlecode) will allow you to write EXT3&4,ZFS,NTFS, and basicly any Filesystem on your MAC.

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Yes I've used MacDrive and its probably the only one around that works good.

This did not work for me. Chrome: 17.0.963.56 Just update acrobat to most current version. Just to be clear, am I correct in understanding that is is NOT possible to use the Acrobat Reader in Google Chrome on a Mac? Google pdf reader for mac. I have a link to a.pdf portfolio that will not open with the Chrome plugin, rather it gives me a notice that i would have a “better experience” if i used Adobe Reader 9. I downloaded and installed, but it still does not work.

Its sometimes buggy though, last I used was up to November last year. Don't know about the latest updates.

I've since changed all my drives back to NTFS, since Snow Leopard has (hidden) native support for writing NTFS files. (Google that - fstab ntfs mac) ;)

I am using HVF_Explorer with a WIN32 system.HVF_Explorer does a pretty good job, and its free.

Greetings!

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