How to read Hard Drive that was formatted for mac on your windows machine #HFS #NTFS

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In this video we will show you how read a Hard drive that was formatted for a Mac computer on your windows machine. Mac computers have a HFS file systems, while Widows computers use an NTFS file system. That is why you are unable to read the mac formatted hard drive on your PC. We will use the HFS for Windows which is software that was developed by Paragon Software group http://www.smileandmobile.com

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  1. If you don't want to buy an additional programs, just use Windows. Go to Cmd window in Windows and use Diskpart. Be very careful to find the correct disk because this is a very powerful program. Type 'list disk' to see all drives. It might be the last disk in the list , just match the size of the new drive to be sure. Once you are VERY Sure , type 'Select Disk X', X being the number of the drive you want to completely erase. It will say 'Changed to Disk X. Then simple type clean. It will say Disk X has been cleaned.
    After that you can go to disk manager under Windows 'Rt click on Computer in file windows explorer and click 'manage to get to disk manager and find the completely empty drive. There you can select it and create a new volume and format it with any file system you want. Save time and just use Windows plus don't download any viruses.
  2. got the trial version of the program you suggested I was able to see the MAC drive AFTER rebooting as you stated. and my problem went away... thank for the video.

    my 2 cents:
    I formatted another drive in Win10 using the exFAT file format (instead of ntfs). copied the files from the mac drive to it. This new drive using exFAT will also be available for the MAC with my covered files...
  3. MY 4TB Hard Drive says i only have 1.8 available but its empty after doing this
  4. didnt work
  5. Thanks, now I can join the PC master Race for that 1080p / 60FPS gaming.
  6. what if it just cant read it
  7. thanks brother, this work just like you said it would, i had my doubts, really appreciate it
  8. Thanks bro. :)
  9. Your awesome bro! Thanks for this simple but intuitive video!
  10. thanks man 10/10
  11. Thank you. worked great on windows 10
  12. life saver lol!! thank you so much
  13. Does this work on Windows 7?
  14. thanks. worked well
  15. i need to open a pc on a mac
  16. Very helpful...you're the best...
  17. great man thanks. but now I can only use my external HD for the time of the trial?
  18. Good video, thanks for making it.  I make all kinds of vids too... check my YouTube channel.  Send me a msg if you want, I love networking with people.
  19. THANK YOU VERY MUCH,  SIR.   THAT WAS A BIG HELP
  20. thank you sir