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Retrieving Mac files with a PC

  • 09-11-2007 11:53am
    #1
    PiE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,538 ✭✭✭


    Guys, I've got an old Mac laptop that stopped working after an incident involving red wine (hard drive is fine... I think).

    I wanna try get the files from it, mainly photographs and stuff. If I stuck the Mac's HDD into an external HDD enclosure, would I be able to retrieve the files by hooking it up to my Windows machine? I have no idea what format the HDD is, though it's about 4 years old so I would imagine FAT32?

    Cheers.


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  • #2
    ethernet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,568 ✭✭✭ethernet


    Was it OS X in 2003? As you can tell, I'm not a Mac user. I would be inclined to believe that the hard drive is formatted with HFS which Windows can't read out-of-the-box. Macdrive is a popular product for letting you access HFS-formatted drives. You might be able to download an evaluation.

    Failing that, there is software for Linux to enable you read HFS drives. You could download a live CD, install the packages if needed and copy data off the drive to another drive or USB key, etc.


  • #3
    PiE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,538 ✭✭✭PiE


    Not too sure what OS it was, not my laptop y'see.

    Cheers for the suggestions though, I'll have a look into them.


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