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General Category => Technology and Programming => Topic started by: Frisky SKeleton on February 03, 2008, 01:53:00 am

Title: Putting a mac harddrive into a PC
Post by: Frisky SKeleton on February 03, 2008, 01:53:00 am: I have a 20gb mac harddrive, how do i put it into a pc?

once it's in, how do i read the files?
Title: Putting a mac harddrive into a PC
Post by: Warlin on February 03, 2008, 05:37:46 am: o.o
Wait is this a serious request?
I've never actually seen a mac harddrive personally, but can you even mount one in a PC?
Title: Putting a mac harddrive into a PC
Post by: Frisky SKeleton on February 03, 2008, 05:56:17 am: yes you can!

it's just a normal harddrive, i couldn't figure out how to set it as a slave on my main channel so i replaced my cd drive with it and it loaded fine.

i used a program called macopener or something in order to find that the mac user was pretty gay
Title: Putting a mac harddrive into a PC
Post by: Warlin on February 03, 2008, 06:18:36 am: Hmm, well if you can mount it in your PC, probably the first thing you'd want to do is set the jumpers and if you can't find which setting is for what just google. Google is your answer to everything.(If theres no jumpers then uh... what?) However, Macs use a different file system than windows(Duh) so I'm not exactly sure what you're going to do with that.(Probably that macopener prog) You could always screw the data on the drive and have a formatting fornication party with the hard drive and make 20 FAT32 partitions.(Or do a linux partition or two, those are always sexy.) Yumm... Then again, I stray from macs. Not because I hate Macintoshes in general its just a bit risky with the parts. They intimidate me with their 'non cmos' ways.
Title: Putting a mac harddrive into a PC
Post by: Stadsport on February 03, 2008, 09:45:28 am: MacDrive (obtain it legally*) is basically an HFS+ driver for Windows. Get it.
There are some other Mac drive explorers, but MacDrive is 100% seamless with Windows Explorer.

* = no
Title: Putting a mac harddrive into a PC
Post by: ATARI on February 03, 2008, 08:42:08 pm: Quote from: Stadsport on February 03, 2008, 09:45:28 am
MacDrive (obtain it legally*) is basically an HFS+ driver for Windows. Get it.
There are some other Mac drive explorers, but MacDrive is 100% seamless with Windows Explorer.

* = no

I am using MacDrive currently to intergerate my PC and my iBook so that they can both read off my external hard drive and it works great. The only problem that I've had is that I can't torrent to the HSFJ partition on my external drive, but I have another partition that is NTFS and that works fine (although OSX still cannot write to NTFS without some special help, although it can still read things off it)