Computers & Networking

[Emberdown]

My MacBook Pro crashed and - literally - burned the other day, and I'm getting a new computer this Wednesday, a PC. I have everything up to about two days before the crash backed up - on a Mac-only-readable external drive. Is there any way short of stealing a 500+ GB Mac and reformatting and reloading the thing to get my stuff onto my new PC?

[AaronE · Accepted solution]

You can usee software like MacDrive to give windows the ability to read and write to that HFS+ formatted external drive you have your backup on.

[rwillen · Accepted solution]

http://www.catacombae.org/hfsx.html

HFS Explorer. Works great, gives you read only access to your OSX drives so you can extract the data.

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[Emberdown]

I already bought a new external, but as my new hard drive is 1TB, I don't feel horrible. Thank you both for the program suggestions, I'll see how they work tomorrow night when I set up my new computer.