external hard-drive cross-platform file retrieval?

August 25, 2006 3:29 PM

I have a Mac, my friend has a PC, we want to share music with an external hard drive. However, upon connecting the hard drive to his PC we discovered that the hard drive is formatted for a Mac, so we can't access the drive without reformatting and losing all the files. Is there a program that retrieves info without having to reformat?
posted by MNDZ to computers & internet (4 comments total)

Previously
posted by cillit bang at 3:33 PM on August 25, 2006

I've used MacOpener in the past.

Unfortunately it's commercial software and the version I used was one from quite a whiles back.
posted by porpoise at 3:34 PM on August 25, 2006

Yes.

http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive6/
posted by drstein at 3:45 PM on August 25, 2006

I second the MacDrive reccomendation. It's seamless.
posted by donguanella at 6:38 PM on August 25, 2006