Help reading WD external HD on Macbook and Windows computers

[jobberone]

Ok, I put some files on an OWC 1.36TB external HD I use on my iMac (at home in the states) and I'm in China and I need to get to those files. Actually I'd like to copy them from the OWC HD formatted in Mac OS extended to another external HD. I can read the OWC on the Macbook G4 I brought with me running on 10.4.11 but obviously I can't read the OWC on my Win7 laptop. I thought I had formatted the OWC with either NTFS or FAT32 but nope I screwed that up.

I have an empty WD 1TB external HD I can use to dump the files from the OWC to but I can't get the Macbook with 10.4.11 to recognize the drive formatted with NTFS, FAT32 (64KB) or (32KB), or extFAT. I thought 10.4 would read and write to FAT32. What am I doing wrong? I can read and write to the WD drive find connected USB to my Win7 laptop BTW.

Thanks.

 

[The Fonz]

one way is to connect both hard drives and boot from a live Linux cd. I think you will be able to see them both and move files. another solution in windows is a program you can install called Mac Drive( $$$) http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive.with it you will be able to access any mac hard drive in windows environment . HfsExplorer is a free GPL alternative (http://catacombae.org.preview.binero.se/hfsx.html) Good luck

 

[kapolani]

Are you able to get to any Mac machines that have a virtual environment with Win 7 installed?

Access the drive through a virtual environment and copy to the new drive.

 

[jobberone]

Are you able to get to any Mac machines that have a virtual environment with Win 7 installed?

Access the drive through a virtual environment and copy to the new drive.

answer one is I don't think so; almost assuredly not. Answer 2 is what the heck is it, Edgar? **MIB**

 

[kapolani]

I have Macs and Window boxes at home.

On one of my Macs I need to access window's applications.

I have a program - Parallels - that allows me to run an instance of Windows 7 at the same time. In a nutshell, it creates a 'virtual environment' that is suitable to run Windows concurrently while running OS X.

I just 'attach' my usb drive to the Win7 instance or vice versa depending on what file system I want to get to.

 

[jobberone]

Thanks. Will try both.

 

[kapolani]

Found a good thread with your choices...

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1570216&highlight=os+x+10+4+and+fat32