How to access mac hard drive from windows boot camp. As its name suggests the software only works with the drives that are. Inside these folders are two device driver files. Click the link below to download the 5 day free trial of a great utility macdrive.
Reboot your computer afterwards. The boot camp drivers seem to have been installed successfully and most things seem to work but i am unable to access the mac partition from windows. Enter your drive letter by adding in data type deviceharddiskvolume where will be the volume number of your partition as it would be detected in ms dos.
Once windows has restarted your mac hard drives will be mounted and you will be able to read files from them properly. This will install the actual drivers into windows. Write to windows ntfs partitions from os x.
Click the next button to proceed. Hfs explorer is a pretty good software that can help you read your mac formatted drives on windows. Right click new add string.
Certainly id like to see the previous read only functionality return to boot camp. Your windows partition appears under devices as bootcamp on mac os x. Enter a volume label drive name too we used windows 10 though you can label this partition with anything.
Run regedit navigate to hkeylocalmachinesystemcurrentcontrolsetcontrolsession managerdos devices. Click the file menu and select load file system from device it will automatically locate the connected drive and you can load it. Youll see the contents of the hfs drive in the graphical window.
Windows cannot natively access a mac formatted drive. Unfortunately mac os x can only read this partition out of the box not write to it. Click the finish button to complete.
According to what i have read the boot camp drivers are supposed to have a read only driver for hfs but macintosh hd does not show up for me. You get 2 major platforms including a genuine unix derivative on the same machine. To use hfsexplorer connect your mac formatted drive to your windows pc and launch hfsexplorer.