Read HFS formatted drive on Windows

[Jonny Wright]

I have a Mac formatted external HDD which I would like to be able to read within Windows. Does anyone know of any (good) freeware which can run within Windows?

 

Thanks

[#Michael]

Paragon makes a free driver for Win 8/8.1.

 

http://www.paragon-software.com/home/hfs-windows-free/

[Jonny Wright]

Paragon makes a free driver for Win 8/8.1.

 

http://www.paragon-software.com/home/hfs-windows-free/

 

Dang, still on Win7

[T3X4S]

Cant you do a trial version of something with no limitations ?
 

[Jonny Wright]

Cant you do a trial version of something with no limitations ?

 

 

Could do for now, but would like a more permanent solution if there is one.

[binaryzero]

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

 

You'll find it at the usual hotspots.

[Aergan]

You could try installing the Apple Bootcamp utilities, it works for my drives.

[#Michael]

Dang, still on Win7

 

Sorry...if you are staying on Win7 for the forseeable future then this software might be worth the purchase.  It is a great piece of software.

[+KibosJ Subscriber²]

If you're just looking to read the drives then the bootcamp utilities would be the best option. That is what I use to read my Mac formatted drives.

 

Used to use Mediafour MacDrive, but it started causing weird issues with one of my drives in Mac

[+BudMan MVC]

I have always just used this

http://www.catacombae.org/hfsexplorer/

FREE!!

[n_K]

You can get the official HFS+ driver from any bootcamp/OSX disc.

[Ryoken]

MacDrive is what I used to use, worked great.. or as was mentioned, use the Apple Read-Only HFS Driver for Windows from the bootcamp drivers.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

I can tell you from experience that Paragon's hfs & ntfs software is really the only good option

 

everything else is either sub-par or unstable or only allows read but not write

 

there's a dual deal as well http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-hfs-bundle/ it's really not too badly priced for what it's worth, especially if you make use of it

[+BudMan MVC]

Well I took it that OP requested READ...

"I have a Mac formatted external HDD which I would like to be able to read within Windows"

Which I can for say the hfsexplorer does that stable, easy, free...

If have had to do anything else with a HFS disk, I have just mounted under linux. Real easy to boot a linux live CD and do whatever it is you need to do to the disk. Hfsprogs is like every single linux distro anyone would be using is it not?