Comments on: external hard-drive cross-platform file retrieval?

Question: external hard-drive cross-platform file retrieval?

MNDZ — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:29:55 -0800

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?

By: cillit bang

cillit bang — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:33:40 -0800

Previously

By: porpoise

porpoise — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:34:23 -0800

I've used MacOpener in the past.

Unfortunately it's commercial software and the version I used was one from quite a whiles back.

By: drstein

drstein — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:45:00 -0800

Yes.

http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive6/

By: donguanella

donguanella — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:38:59 -0800

I second the MacDrive reccomendation. It's seamless.