Mac Extended Journaled Reader For Windows

  • Formatting From a Mac. To format a drive as FAT32 from a Mac, follow these simple steps. [ Further reading: Best NAS boxes for media streaming and backup ] 1.
  • But even if I don't partition the unallocated 20GB at all I can't format them to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with the Disk Utility! The unallocated space is just grey and all the buttons like 'Options', 'Revert' and 'Apply' as well as the 'Format:' are just grey.

Besides, you can format an external hard drive for Mac and Windows by converting HFS+ to FAT32 or exFAT without losing any data. Step 1: Backup Data in HFS+ Partition on Mac Just transfer all useful files out from the external hard drive to other devices on Mac.

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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.

Format mac os extended journaled

Hope someone can help!

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8 Answers

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
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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.

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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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