I want to access my windows w/o going into it, possible?

[Pokesmart]

Recently, my mac is acting wierd. Not only does it take about 5 min to get into mac, but also never logs into windows. This started when I left my windows on for 4 hours straight last week. I am thinking about reinstalling windows, but I want to save the files that are stuck in windows first. Is there any way to access the windows partition in mac?? or any way to extract those files from windows?

 

[r.j.s]

How do you have Windows installed?

 

[spinnerlys]

If you used Boot Camp, you should be able to read all the files on there, thus be able to simply copy the data from the Windows partition to wherever you like.

FAT32

• Read/Write FAT32 from both native Windows and native Mac OS X.
• No individual file larger than 4GB.

NTFS

• Read/Write NTFS from native Windows.
• Read only NTFS from native Mac OS X
• To Read/Write NTFS from Leopard: Install MacFUSEand NTFS-3G. You can install both with NTFS-3Gfor Mac OS X.
• To Read/Write NTFS from Snow Leopard: Guide: Enable native NTFS Read/Write in Snow Leopard
• (Be aware that some are of the opinion that enabling native NTFS in SL is unstable/unreliable, and favor the MacFuse/NTFS-3G method for Snow Leopard)

HFS

• Read/Write HFS from native Mac OS X
• To Read/Write HFS from Windows, Install MacDrive
• To Read HFS (but not Write) from Windows, Install HFSExplorer

 

[Pokesmart]

How do u do that~~~?? When I start my bootcamp, there is only the option to install or remove partitions.

 

[r.j.s]

How do u do that~~~?? When I start my bootcamp, there is only the option to install or remove partitions.

You should be able to access the partition using Finder, there is no reason to open Boot Camp Assistant.

 

[Pokesmart]

But i do not see it in finder either~..the only partition i can see is my mac partition, thats all.

 

[spinnerlys]

But i do not see it in finder either~..the only partition i can see is my mac partition, thats all.

Open Macintosh HD / Applications / Utilities / Disk Utility and look if you can see the Boot Camp partition there.

 

[Pokesmart]

I do, even tho the name isnt the name I set in windows. Now what should I do? How can I extract files from windows?

 

[spinnerlys]

Go to the Macintosh HD icon located in the Finder's Sidebar, click on it, then press Command + ArrowUp, and now you should see all mounted volumes on your Mac, including the Boot Camp partition, whatever its name is.

 

[gugucom]

If your bootcamp partition is undamaged you can install an NTFS driver in OS X which would enable you to read and write to the bootcamp partition. You can copy all files to a backup drive then.

Paragon do a good NTFS driver. You can test it and buy it if it does what you want. http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/