Timemachine and windows

[MacAodh]

Hi all,
After many years of service my mac died in it's sleep a couple of days ago. After a candle lit ceremony and some fond words I ordered a replacement. Problem is i'm completely broke and could only afford a windows replacement right now.

My question is, can i load the time machine backup onto my new windows computer? Looking at it before I remember that the directory structure is the same with the newer versions of the files stored. Therefore, it would take weeks to go through it manually...

Any ideas?

 

[throAU]

No, you can't as far as I am aware.

the PC can't read HFS disks, and even if it could, time machine backups are sparse bundles which I don't believe there is any tool on windows to deal with.



You MIGHT be able to find a linux utility to deal with it, but i wouldn't put money on it.

 

[balamw]

I'd suggest finding someone with a Mac, and have them restore to an external drive which you can then copy stuff over from to your Windows box.

B

 

[MacAodh]

No, you can't as far as I am aware.

the PC can't read HFS disks, and even if it could, time machine backups are sparse bundles which I don't believe there is any tool on windows to deal with.



You MIGHT be able to find a linux utility to deal with it, but i wouldn't put money on it.

I know I've got my home computer to read HFS with a separate program before but that unfortunately is one step out of about ten...

I'd suggest finding someone with a Mac, and have them restore to an external drive which you can then copy stuff over from to your Windows box.

B

Yea that was my thought too but it's a long way round. Was hoping that someone was just going tell me to download something and done . Oh if life were only that simple...

 

[throAU]

Another option: you could MAYBE hackintosh your box, copy the data back, and then either go back to windows or run it as a hackintosh until you get real hardware back?