#Free mac drive reader windows converter zip file#

The above download is a ZIP file open the file in Windows by double-clicking it. While the HFS+ drivers are normally packaged as part of Apple's Boot Camp Assistant software, you can download them separately below. If you don't need to write any files to your Mac hard drives, using them is a free and relatively pain-free solution. These drivers will mount your Mac hard drives in Windows Explorer and give you read access (but no write access). Among other things, Boot Camp includes built-in HFS+ drivers for Windows. If purchasing apps is not an option for you, check out the following section.Īpple's Boot Camp software is designed to help you run Windows on real Macs. It has a higher price tag and doesn't offer much more than Paragon HFS+, but it's an option. If you're looking for an alternative to Paragon HFS+, then you can also consider MacDrive ($50 5-day trial), which is the solution that I'm currently using on my own Hackintosh.

#Free mac drive reader windows converter for mac os#

Paragon is the same company that makes NTFS+ for Mac OS X, my recommended solution for enabling NTFS write support on Mac OS X Lion. Paragon HFS+ runs in the background and automatically starts on bootup, so accessing your Mac drives will feel exactly like accessing normal Windows drives. My Computer) and gives you read and write access. Paragon HFS+ ($20) is a Windows application that mounts all of your Mac hard drives in Windows Explorer (a.k.a. LATEST UPDATE (January 26, 2013): Added Apple's Boot Camp Drivers to the article. Having read/write access for your Mac partition on Windows will come in handy if your Hackintosh becomes unbootable, because you'll be able to boot into Windows to recover your files (and possibly fix your Hackintosh's boot problem). I needed both the Mac and a PC to get the job done. In summary: I was never ab e to get the PC to read from a Mac format HFS drive. I have transferred all my music, pics, etc to my external drive from the mac and i was able to access and USE those same files on my girl's PC (which is Windows 8 btw). Just get a hard drive formatted as FAT32 and you can plug it into a Mac, get your files and plug it into a PC.