Macintosh HD write access via Windows 7 in Bootcamp

[jackOH]

Is it possible to have write access to my Macintosh HD while being booted in Windows 7 via BootCamp?

I can explore my Macintosh HD while in Windows and copy files from it to my Windows drive, but when I try to drag files back over to my Macintosh HD it won't let me due to permissions errors.

 

[bmcgonag]

Is it possible to have write access to my Macintosh HD while being booted in Windows 7 via BootCamp?

I can explore my Macintosh HD while in Windows and copy files from it to my Windows drive, but when I try to drag files back over to my Macintosh HD it won't let me due to permissions errors.

Windows can't natively write to the HFS+ (the file system used by Mac). THere are programs out there that will give windows that capability. I believe one is Called MacDrive, and it should allow you to mount and write to your Mac HDD.

Best of luck,

 

[satcomer]

At home on my Windows 7 partition I use MacDrive. Sure it is shareware but at the time it was the only Windows 7 program available. However it is still running very well.

 

[MJCreech]

Sorry to reopen this thread...but it is relevant to what I need. How could I copy information from the MAC HD to the windows section. It appears the MAC HD has crashed and I cannot access my files. I don't know how only one partition can crash and the other one be perfectly functional.

 

[bmcgonag]

I'm guessing that MacDrive (or similar software) would let you access that partition.

Not certain about that, depends on how messed up the partition is.

 

[johnhurley]

aha bump to first page

Are you looking for paragon software? They have some commercial software as well as ( I think ) some free stuff that might help here.

 

[velocityg4]

Sorry to reopen this thread...but it is relevant to what I need. How could I copy information from the MAC HD to the windows section. It appears the MAC HD has crashed and I cannot access my files. I don't know how only one partition can crash and the other one be perfectly functional.

If you are talking about a hard drive failure or damaged partitions. You want Nucleus Kernel Mac. I've also done a fair number of data recoveries. Nucleus Kernel is by far the most robust and thorough data recovery program line out there. All their products run in Windows and I have recovered HFS+, NTFS, FAT32, ReiserFS and JFS partitions.

Far better than the Data Rescue and Disk Warrior products. As they require a recognizable Mac partition. While Nucleus Kernel will scan an entire drive regardless of the partition state. In case of an accidental repartition or if the partition table was corrupted.