Viewing a Mac formatted drive on windows.

[leckie]

I have an external hard drive that my partner and I will be using for our media however she runs windows. Obviously I'm making her download the third party software instead of installing driver for NTFS on my mac but my question is what is the best third party software/drivers that will let me view the drive on the windows machine or will it in fact be easier to get drivers to view NTFS?

Thanks!

[robbieduncan]

MacDrive (http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/)

[mdhwoods]

MacDrive (http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/)

yup thats what i use.

[leckie]

Amazing, thanks for the speedy reply.

[XianPalin]

If you only need to infrequently grab a few files from your Mac partition, this also works:

HFS Explorer:
http://hem.bredband.net/catacombae/hfsx.html

It's free. The downside is you have to find the files you want and "extract" them (copy them) to your windows partition before you can do anything with them. However, if you just want to copy a video file over or something every once and a while without spending any money, this works well.

[panzer06]

I have an external hard drive that my partner and I will be using for our media however she runs windows. Obviously I'm making her download the third party software instead of installing driver for NTFS on my mac but my question is what is the best third party software/drivers that will let me view the drive on the windows machine or will it in fact be easier to get drivers to view NTFS?

Thanks!

Even though you mentioned not wanting to do so, NTFS-3G and MacFUSE allow Macs to read and write NTFS volumes and doesn't cost anything. You can even use disk utility to format a drive with NTFS.

Cheers,