How To Access Mac Formatted Drive On Windows

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Connect your Mac-formatted drive on your Windows PC and select ‘ Load file system from the device' from File in the menu bar. You will see the contents of the HFS+. In some cases, you may have formatted to change file systems, run into issues, and now have to recover files from a formatted hard drive. No matter how you arrived at this point, the fact is that now to regain access to the data you need to recover data from a hard disk after formatting. Connect your Mac-formatted drive to your Windows system, open HFSExplorer, and click File Load File System From Device. HFSExplorer can automatically locate any connected devices with HFS+ file systems and open them. You can then extract files from the HFSExplorer window to your Windows drive.

Usually Windows cannot read Mac formatted drive, but if you wish to use third party tools that can fill up the gap and provide access to Mac interface with Apple's HFS+ file system on windows.

One thing you should keep in mind while dealing with this kind of scenario is that when you connect your Mac formatted drive to Windows, you will be informed to erase it with notification 'you need to format the disk in drive X: before you can use it.' Just don't click 'Format' or else all the contents of the drive will be gone once and for all. Rather click 'Cancel' to avoid the situation. The message generally pops up because Windows does not understand or recognize the Apple's HFS+ file system. So don't format until you get the important files out of the drive. But if it does not contain any important files, then you can surely go ahead by clicking the 'Format' button.

Here in this article we would use certain third party tools to read the Mac formatted drive on Windows. Just carry on reading to learn the methods in real.

Method #1: Use HFSExplorer To Read Mac on Windows

It is freeware software available easily on the internet and can be used to read Mac files on Windows interface. Although HFSExplorer is not that fancy in appearance, but it does not install any driver that gets integrated with windows file explorer. So you can only open, read and copy the Mac OS files to Windows directory. In order to know its usage read carefully the steps mentioned below:

Step 1. Download HFSExplorer and install it accurately on your Windows PC.

Step 2. Connect your Mac formatted drive to your Windows PC and launch the HFSExplorer with admin privileges.

Step 3. Now go to 'File' menu and click on 'Load file system from device.'. It will trace your connected drive all of its own accord and you can easily load it.

Step 4. Once the files system is loaded you can see the file contents of the Mac formatted drive on the Graphical window.

Step 5. Select your files, and click 'Extract' and choose a folder to save the extracted materials. They will straight away be copied to the location you have chosen on PC. Edit photo mac preview.

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Method #2:Open .Pages on Windows using iCloud

Opening a .page file format on Windows is not as simple as double-clicking the file and accessing it right away. But as long as you have the access to Apple ID, or any web browser like Chrome, Firefox, or Internet Explorer, you can definitely pull off the task. Just go through the method description given below to actuate the task:

Step 1. From your Windows PC, open any of your default browser and visit iCloud.com.

Step 2. Next you have to sign in with your Apple ID. If you don't have one, you can create one by the Sign-up option posted on the webpage. Now the surprising part is that signing up for an Apple ID immediately grants you 5 GB of free iCloud storage and this is what we are going to put to use in this tutorial.

Step 3. Once you are signed in to your Apple ID, click on the 'Pages' icon and new windows will pop up.

Step 4. Click on 'Settings' icon which is actually a 'gear' icon and click on 'Upload Document' option from the context menu. Again a new window will open up, and you have got to browse the pages that you wish to edit and upload it.

Step 5. Now to do the editing part, there are options available:

• Once the pages have been uploaded to iCloud, you can directly open and edit the documents utilizing web-friendly version of the Pages on the browser. It may not have all the tools you require as that of the Page app, yet it is commendable for quick changes.
• Secondly, you can click on 'Tools' icon and choose 'Download a Copy' option form the sub-menu and select 'word' to re-export the documents as Word-friendly files and open it using MS work in your Windows PC. The documents will be downloaded as .doc file and is made available for further download on your PC.

Step 6. Your file would now be downloaded with .doc extension which can be easily accessed with MS Word Processors.

Conclusion:

Whether you use Mac or Windows OS, there shall obviously come a time when you will be bound to do use documents on both the systems, and you would definitely need a way out to open and modify documents between both the OS. Now running documents with .doc or .docx extension of windows is not that difficult to run on Mac, but if you decide to open .page file on Windows, follow the guidelines elaborated above.

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• It simply works out of the box too – previously inaccessible drives suddenly show up like any other, and you can now easily transfer data to and from a Mac using an external HFS+ formatted drive as an intermediary. There's no performance penalty either – we happily transferred multi-gigabyte files via a USB 2 connection at around 40MB/s, for example.

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• Paragon HFS+ runs in the background and automatically starts on bootup, so accessing your Mac drives will feel exactly like accessing normal Windows drives.

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• Paragon HFS+ does cost $20, but it also offers a 10-day free trial. If you just need to recover files from a drive, 10 days is plenty of time to install this file system driver, copy your files over, and uninstall it. If you want to use Mac drives on Windows on an ongoing basis, paying $20 so you can use the drive properly is a pretty good deal. As a bonus, Paragon HFS+ doesn't require you have the insecure Java installed.

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How it Works

Install

Download and install the HFS+ for Windows by Paragon Software

Use

Your drive will show up in Explorer

• Straightforward UI for working with HFS+ partitions as easily as native volumes
• Easy to navigate all features from a single application menu
• Check the integrity of HFS+ partitions to fix errors and view status report
• Quickly access HFS + partitions from the Windows taskbar

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• Full support of Windows 10, 8/8.1, 7 SP1

• Availability to read and write data on APFS-formatted disks

• Automount

Frequently Asked Questions

Access Mac From Windows 10

Due to the specifics of Windows 8 or Windows 10 Fast Startup feature, we highly recommend that you disable it before installing the driver to avoid possible file system corruption. For more details, please refer to the Microsoft Knowledge Base ››

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