So here's my situation.
I'm doing some post FX for a TV series and the edit drives they gave me are OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dock's setup in a Raid 0 and formatted as APFS.
I have no access to a modern mac. I'm running a Windows 10 machine with an X570 Taichi and Gigabyte GC-Alpine Ridge Thunderbolt card. Drive is connected to gigabyte card via TB3 cable.
TB3 Card and motherboard seem to be playing nice. The OWC Drives are detected in windows and even show up in disk management. I have however, been completely unsuccessful at mounting the drives.
Things I have tried:
- Paragon APFS for Windows: Can see the drive. If I click the mount button and assign it a drive letter nothing happens. The explore options is greyed out. I've tried restarting the drive, paragon's service and my computer. Note this software works fine for APFS usb drives I've tested.
- MacDrive Pro - doesn't see the drive in its main page or repair page. If I open the MacDrive Disk Manager it shows the OWC drive but only 1 parition and my only option is to initialize or format it (not an option)
- UFS Explorer - can see the drive and explore the files but as a software has no way to mount the drives for use in other programs. not really an option as I don't have equally sized spare drives to transfer the files to
- TransMac - same as UFS explorer. Can see the drive and files, but no way to mount.
Does anyone have any experience with APFS on windows? Is there any way to use this drive without a modern mac?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
