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Accessing NTFS/HFS+ drives?

Fenster · 2006-07-05 20:24:17

I'm finally set up on my Macbook Pro, with a dualboot to Windows. Only one thing so far is bothering me: Windows doesn't have HFS+ drivers and OS X doesn't have NTFS drivers. Blargh. While I understand that Apple are working on an NTFS driver, is there anything that will let me access HFS+ drives from Windows? Oh, and my…

05-07-2006 8:24pm

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Fenster

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I'm finally set up on my Macbook Pro, with a dualboot to Windows. Only one thing so far is bothering me: Windows doesn't have HFS+ drivers and OS X doesn't have NTFS drivers. Blargh.

While I understand that Apple are working on an NTFS driver, is there anything that will let me access HFS+ drives from Windows?

Oh, and my macbook is teh pwn, for the record. Its definately fit to replace my desktop.

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#2 05-07-2006 11:24pm

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Get it into ya!

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#3 07-07-2006 11:58am

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Maybe totally wide of the mark here but will this problem persist if/when Leopard arrives. If Windows is running alongside Leopard then can't we access shares from each system regardless of FS. I presume the app Parallel offers a similar "feature" ?

With VPC on a PPC mac this is certainly possibe.

ZEN

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#4 08-07-2006 6:12pm

Fenster

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Thank'ee, works perfectly and definately worth buying at this point in time.

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#5 08-07-2006 8:52pm

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HFSExplorer btw well it was a good program when I used Basilisk 2 emulator

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