Mac Internal Hard Drive File System Not Recognized by Windows

[Balgruuf]

A few years ago before I was as tech savvy as I am now, my grandma bought me a Macbook, and a 3-year warranty for it at future shop (she isn't really tech savvy either). So a week ago I had no option but to walk home from school in the rain. Apparently that 10-minute walk was enough to cause water damage in my mac. Future Shop told me to fuck off once they saw the water damage, and said "Oh, we don't cover water damage" whilst twiddling his nipples, despite the fact that my grandma paid $300 for a warranty. So, now I am trying to get back approximately 20 hours of school work that will have to be redone if not recovered. Right now my PC and my X-macbook are both sitting naked on my desk, and the drive from the mac is connected to my PC. Obviously, Mac and Windows use different file systems, so windows will not let me explore the drive, but recognizes it in disk management and disk part. Disk part will not let me set the drive as active because it is not a MBR drive, and the only option in disk management is to delete the volumes. Please help, I have a feeling the solution is a 3rd party software that can read the mac file system, or possibly going out and buying a small enclosure and hooking it up to a friend's mac via USB. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

 

EDIT: OMG, it worked! Thank you all so much. The solution was to use MacDrive to read the file system. Thank you from saving me from spending the rest of the week rewriting English Journals.

[Guest]

Yeah, Windows can't natively read/write to HFS+ filesystems, so use MacDrive like the guy above said.

[xox]

Yeah, you need a driver to view mac drives

[Balgruuf]

Okay, thanks guys for the replies, I'll try MacDrive and update with results.

[TDP_Equinox]

mark the topic as solved please