Just get a hard drive formatted as FAT32 and you can plug it into a Mac, get your files and plug it into a PC. With macOS High Sierra, Apple introduced its new file system called APFS (Apple. I needed both the Mac and a PC to get the job done. As it’s an Apple product, it’s designed to work with Apple computers, not Windows 10. Whenever I’d attempt to insert a CD, the SuperDrive wouldn’t accept it. In summary: I was never ab e to get the PC to read from a Mac format HFS drive. I bought one after buying my new laptop and discovering it didn’t have an optical drive, and I found that initially it didn’t work.
If youre using Windows 8, you can get the free edition.
#Reading an apple drive with windows for windows 10#
I have transferred all my music, pics, etc to my external drive from the mac and i was able to access and USE those same files on my girl's PC (which is Windows 8 btw). Read Mac Formatted Drives with Windows Paragon Software Group HFS+ for Windows 10 (19.95). TB of Fat32!! So it was well worth the wait. For example, you might want to do this if you use a flash drive to store data files you need to use on your Mac at home and when using a Windows-based computer. The format of the external hard drive took 30 hours.
#Reading an apple drive with windows install#
it doesn't even install anything on your computer. PC and I searched the net and I was able to download a program called Fat32Formatter. How can i transfer my files from mac to PC? I borrowed my girlfriend's repaired my MacBook Pro which I am using right now.
So the Paragon software was a waste of $20 bucks and it resolved nothing.
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