Recoving/Accessing external Mac Drive and transfering to PC?
 

So my iMac video card and HD have blown and instead of repairing it due to high cost, I am looking at purchasing a PC.

I had back ups in place for my files on 2 external HD (Western Digital HD's). Can I simply plug these into the new PC and it will read them? I believe mac and PC hard drive sare setup differently and I will not be able to do this...

What are my options?

the key files I need to recover are...

1) iTunes- Music, movies etc
2) Word Documents
3) Pictures from iPhoto

i have a macbook pro and a PC desktop. I use a 32GB usb drive to transfer stuff between these two computers and works well for me.

but yea, pc and mac can't transfer files between each other with an external harddrive so usb would be your best bet.

You'll need a program like Macdrive installed on your pc. This will give you full access to the mac formatted drive.

theres a free hfs explorer that you can install on windows to see mac formatted drives
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downloaded the macdrive software and it isnt working... arrrggg

When I turned it on, Windows 7 detected the drive and went through its usual procedure, however when I double clicked on the drive I receive the error message:

“Location is not available

#:\ is not accessible.

The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable.”

If I right click and go into properties the first screen shows that the used and free space are 0 bytes.

When I go to the Tools tab, and under the error-checking button “Check now…” it displays the message “The disk check could not be performed because Windows can’t access the disk.”

I know there is data on these drives but for whatever reason Windows 7 wont read it... even with the Macdrive program.

Any other ideas?

oh btw looks like I'm not the only one have this problem

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...d-29a6e1dfdad3

try the hfs explorer then
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download the latest version of ubuntu and boot off the disk. You should be able to read the mac drive and write to an ntfs drive with it.