Accessing an apple internal harddrive on windows 7

Tim Webber

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Hello,

I have an old Macbook pro hard drive(Hitachi Model HTS542520K9SA00) attached via sata to usb to my windows 7 machine. I can see the drive in the disk management program. It says that it's a healthy drive and everything is in working condition. I can't see the drive in explorer in the list of drives, however. I've searched around numerous forums but havn't been able to find anything to make this work. I'm assuming it may be a problem with the way the macbook hard drive is formatted.

When right-clicking the disk in disk management, I am unable to assign drive letters or do anything other than delete the volume. Any suggestions on how to fix this? Thanks for your help.
 
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http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/make-windows-recognize-mac-formatted-external-hard-drives-and-files/
Short of using software similar to the one mentioned in the link you may have to delete the partition to use the drive. You are correct in that it is the way the Macbook drive is formatted.
http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/make-windows-recognize-mac-formatted-external-hard-drives-and-files/
Short of using software similar to the one mentioned in the link you may have to delete the partition to use the drive. You are correct in that it is the way the Macbook drive is formatted.
 
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Tim Webber

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This was exactly it! Not really sure why I didn't think of something like this earlier...thanks!
 

Bill Wendel

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If you just want access to the data on the hard drive you can try booting off a Linux Live disk. You may have to login as the Linux root user to access where the data is on the mac drive. Then you can locate what you need and copy it across to the Windows drive. Make sure you are copying to a location that a standard Win7 user can access.