Using an Mac-used External Drive on a Windows

[jlcaine]

I'm a teacher and I (on behalf of my students) need your help. I have a bunch of (extermely important) files and lesson plans I need to acces, which are on a Seagate external back up drive. I used this external drive on a Mac. Now that my Mac has been stolen, ( yes - it's sad, I know; I'm coping) , I need to access my saved files on this drive, but using a PC this time (because it's all I have at the moment - again, I'm coping).

So, I plug it in - all cords and systems go - but the drive doesn't show up in the Computers folder. Although the PC actually recognized something was indeed plugged in (the bottom right hand pop up said it did), it doesn't show up in the Computers folder.

What do I do to see my files on a PC? Thank you to all who help!

 

[spinnerlys]

http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/

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 MacFUSE and NTFS-3G. You can install both with NTFS-3G for 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