Need transferring Files

[Quasartastic]

So my sister has had a macbook (sadly) for a while now, apparently she was bringing it into the bathroom to listen to music while she showered. She took it to a shop and they said the motherboard was corroding (I didnt see any signs but he probably knows more than I do). She wants me to extract the files from her hard drive so she can have her pictures and other stuff, I got the HDD out and plugged it into my computer via a hot swap dock, turned the computer on and couldn't find it in the file explorer. went to disk manager and I can see it but I cant do anything with it, it is already partitioned, wont let me assign a pathway, I just want to extract the files and helpful links on file extraction or any advice here would be appreciated.

[Quasartastic]

Side note it will let me do a "convert to dynamic disk" but never done that before and worried it will erase the files

[Mug]

Macs use HFS+ instead of something that Windows can read/write to. You have two options, Linux and a programme that enables Windows to read HFS volumes. In my opinion, Linux is the easiest way to solve it because programmes are usually very slow to transfer large files.

1. Create a bootable Ubuntu volume using Pendrivelinux and the latest iso from Ubuntu's website
2. Boot off it and select "try ubuntu" which will bring you into a working linux os
3. Try reading the drive in the file explorer. If anything fails, google the error (there's usually something lol) and failing that, message me and I'll help you sort it

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

http://www.catacombae.org/hfsexplorer/

[Quasartastic]

18 minutes ago, SCHISCHKA said:

http://www.catacombae.org/hfsexplorer/

hey so I did this and launched but its not finding any devices that have HFS+, could it be in HFS format?

 

Edited December 16, 2016 by Quasartastic

[Quasartastic]

19 minutes ago, Mug said:

Macs use HFS+ instead of something that Windows can read/write to. In my opinion this is the easiest way to solve it:

1. Ubuntu an read a HFS drive, create a bootable Ubuntu volume using Pendrivelinux and the latest iso from Ubuntu's website
2. Boot off it and select "try ubuntu" which will bring you into a working linux os
3. Try reading the drive in the file explorer. If anything fails, google the error (there's usually something lol) and failing that, message me and I'll help you sort it

is there any way that I could do this without downloading another OS?

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

8 minutes ago, Quasartastic said:

hey so I did this and launched but its not finding any devices that have HFS+, could it be in HFS format?

 

it should be able to read both formats. try run it as administrator

[Quasartastic]

8 minutes ago, SCHISCHKA said:

it should be able to read both formats. try run it as administrator

Perfect mate, cheers a bundle