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I have a Lacie 4TB external HDD which have 1.5 TB of data but I am not able to access it as it looks like the the file system of the volume which contains my data is Apple's File System and I cant find any way to access it from windows machine.
Please Help!!!
EDIT : Is it even possible? Or Do I need to hack my way through it? Cause I really dont wanna pay any direct/indirect singly penny to Apple.
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There is certainly a way to read the data off the disk, although not natively (in the file explorer).
The easiest way to read it is using one of many 'Linux Reader'-like applications, that allow you to read almost any file system used on Linux, Windows or Mac (Linux Reader from DiskInternals can read your drive).
The second easiest way would be to mount the drive in a Live Linux environment (Debian, Ubuntu etc.) and do it there since Linux systems have modules for all modern file systems (including NTFS for Windows and HFS+ for Mac).
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These tools can be used:
https://github.com/sgan81/apfs-fuse for Linux
https://www.paragon-software.com/home/apfs-windows for Windows
Source: How to mount APFS on Linux or Windows?
simplegamersimplegamer
You can use software called 'UFS Explorer Standard Access'. From version 5.23.3 they started supporting APFS. Verified, working!
Download it HERE- Just to mention that freeware version is useless, because it has some filesize limit! And it's too-too expensive, I think nobody cracked it yet. If I find some other solution I will update the post!
It supports:
Windows (FAT, ExFAT, NTFS, ReFS),
Mac OS (HFS, HFS+, APFS),
Linux (Ext, UFS, XFS, ReiserFS)
Windows (FAT, ExFAT, NTFS, ReFS),
Mac OS (HFS, HFS+, APFS),
Linux (Ext, UFS, XFS, ReiserFS)
UPDATE:
There is another one 'MacDrive from Mediafour' It's 5-day full trial.
There is another one 'MacDrive from Mediafour' It's 5-day full trial.
BlueDevBlueDev
Apple has not released the specs yet. I only know of two companies with beta versions for using on Windows: Transmac by Acute Systems and Macdrive from Mediafour.
Ron BanksRon Banks
Today I needed to read my APFS partition from desktop Windows machine. As I already answered here there is a free for now (preview-version) APFS for Windows by Paragon. It worked perfectly well for me in read-only mode.
DerpDerp
Apple has not released specs at this time so currently only experimental software is available. apfs-fuse is an open source project attempting to implement support via FUSE. Paragon is working on a driver but has yet to release any details on how to get it. I don't know about anything else yet.
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I have some external hard drives that are Mac OS Extended (Journaled) formatted. What software can you recommend for working with those drives when under Windows? Do you have any experience with this?
Would be best if the software is free, but it doesn't have to be.
Hope someone can help!
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MarkMark
You can install Apple bootcamp drivers (no official download links but you can find it on other sites) on a non-Apple machine. This will install HFS+ (the other name for Mac OS Extended) drivers for Windows.
CharlesBCharlesB
For those with Windows 7, drivers can be found using Apple KB: TS3172
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SzymiSzymi
Seems like MediaFour MacDrive is the recommended one from various places. If anyone has any good and free alternatives or just other alternatives, I'd like to know about those though :)
Along with the ability to read and write to Mac disks and volumes, you can also create Mac disks for easy file transfers and backups. The built-in MacDrive Disk Manager gives you the power to partition, format, analyze and repair disks, while the newly revamped CD/DVD Creator allows you to burn Mac CDs and DVDs.
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I found the solution in here. It works just great. They are the official Apple´s driver set. It works with latest format (End 2012).
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jonbarlojonbarlo
Have you considered going in the opposite direction?
NTFS on OSX
This is what i do. Any External Drive that i connect to my OSX machine that i plan to also use with Windows i make the volume an NTFS volume. osxFUSE(googlecode) will allow you to write EXT3&4,ZFS,NTFS, and basicly any Filesystem on your MAC.
Mac Files On Windows
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Yes I've used MacDrive and its probably the only one around that works good.
Its sometimes buggy though, last I used was up to November last year. Don't know about the latest updates.
I've since changed all my drives back to NTFS, since Snow Leopard has (hidden) native support for writing NTFS files. (Google that - fstab ntfs mac) ;)
shrmnshrmn
I am using HVF_Explorer with a WIN32 system.HVF_Explorer does a pretty good job, and its free.
Greetings!
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