Access HFS+ discs in Windows via a free application

Sep 12, '07 07:30:01AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

While I was booted into Windows XP via Boot Camp on my Intel Mac, I was frustrated by the inability to access the files on my Mac's HFS+ hard drive. So I wrote HFSExplorer, a free application for extracting files from an HFS+ volume (Mac OS Extended) located either on a physical disk, on a .dmg disk image, or in a raw file. Beyond Boot Camp users, other possible users include:

The program is written mostly in Java 1.5, with Windows-specific parts written in C in order to be able to get raw access to block devices, which seemed impossible with the standard API, and to create a practical launcher application. The program is released under the GPL (download source [312KB]), and full installation and usage instructions can be found on the above-linked page.

[robg adds: I haven't tested this one, but it seems like a simpler and cheaper solution (albeit not as fully featured) than MacDrive.]

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